In re Adoption of Perkins

(dissenting) — I join in the dissent of Justice Smith (written after the writer’s dissent). However, I desire to go further and point out that any fair review de novo of the evidence (assuming the propriety of such procedure) does not require or warrant the majority’s holding- that the boys’ welfare will best be served by denying' the adoption. Then Division II hereof- discusses more fully than does Division I of Justice Smith’s dissent the question of the claimed necessity for the father’s' consent to th-e adoption.

It may also be pointed out that the method of review here (whether de novo or…