Taylor v. White

GARRARD, Presiding Judge.

Everett and Jean Taylor appeal from a Grant Circuit Court order which vacated their adoption of Phillip Taylor. The dis-positive issue raised by this appeal is whether the trial court erred in concluding that the decree of adoption was invalid because the Taylors failed to seek and obtain the consent of Jefferson and Celeste White and the consent of a New Jersey Superior Court which had entered an order giving the Taylors and the Whites joint custody of Phillip. We affirm.

This appeal is the result of an adoption procured by Everett and Jean Taylor, the paternal…