Willmott v. Decker

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

MENOR, J.

This is an appeal from the judgment of the family court, dismissing the appellant’s complaint for a determination of his visitation rights, and from the decree of adoption granted over the appellant’s opposition.

The appellant is the natural father of a child born out of wedlock on August 23, 1971. He and the child’s mother had lived together and held themselves out as husband and wife for several years prior to the birth of the child. They were never legally married. They continued living together as such for at least another year after the child was born.…