Regina E. v. Dorothy G.

Opinion

HOOVER, J. *

This is an appeal brought by a child’s maternal grandmother from a decree of adoption conferring parenthood on the child’s paternal grandparents. The appeal presents three cognizable issues and a host of emotional, social and moral problems.

A brief factual history of the child’s family includes the separation and divorce action of the parents, a contested monetary award to the wife, the preferred testimony of the wife’s attorney of her wishes concerning the future care of her child, and the singular calamity of her apparent murder by her husband, the child’s father.

After…