Legal Opinion
Matter of Adoption of Baby Boy D
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided November 12, 1985No. 62024PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SUMMERS, Justice.
Appellant was a 19 year old member of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma when his former girlfriend, an unmarried 17 year old non-Indian, gave birth to Baby Boy D. With her consent the infant was adopted by the appellees, a married couple. After learning of the adoption without notice to him and without his consent, he filed a petition in the District Court, claiming to be the father and seeking to vacate the adoption.
Appellant’s Petition to Vacate requested that the Decree of Adoption be set aside on the grounds that (1) Baby Boy D was an Indian child as defined by the Indian…
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