Robinson v. Neubauer

A petition for adoption was filed in the circuit court of Livingston County by Mr. and Mrs. Richard Robinson, seeking to adopt Melody Lynn Neubauer, then aged almost four years. Martin Eugene Neubauer, her father, a named defendant, was alleged to be an unfit person by reason of abandonment of the child, desertion and other neglect, or other misconduct toward the child. The circuit court denied the petition for adoption and this appeal followed.

Melody Lynn was born on April 24, 1962. Her mother, Dorothy Neubauer, died in childbirth. Upon the release of the child from the hospital, the father…