Legal Opinion
In Re Adoption of Hess
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided April 29, 1992No. 39 E.D. Appeal Docket 1990PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
NIX, Chief Justice.
The instant appeal presents the Court with the issue of whether grandparents may be permitted to participate in proceedings for the adoption of their grandchildren. The appeal arises from the Superior Court’s reversal of an order of the Lancaster County Common Pleas Court, Orphans’ Court Division, dismissing the grandparents’ Complaint for Custody and Petition to Intervene in state adoption proceed*220ings instituted after the parents’ rights to the grandchildren were terminated.
Sometime prior to June 15, 1987, Melanie Lynn and Matthew James Hess, four and five-year old…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Albright v. Commonwealth Ex Rel. FettersSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1980
- Hookey Adoption CaseSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1966
- In Re Adoption of HessSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1989
- Jacono Adoption CaseSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1967
- Pilon v. PilonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1985
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3Cited by36 opinions
- In re G.C.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1999
- Chester County Children & Youth Services v. CunninghamSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1995
- In Re Adoption of J.E.F.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2006
- In Re the Adoption of A.M.B.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 2002
- In the Interest of L.C.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 2006
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