Maisels Adoption Case

Opinion by

Me. Justice Benjamin B. Jones,

Over the objection of the natural mother and with the consent of the natural father, the Orphans’ Court of Delaware County decreed the adoption of a then 6 year old female child by her uncle and paternal aunt in whose custody she had been for approximately three years. From that decree the child’s mother has taken this appeal.

Stanley and Edna Maisels were married January 19, 1945 and of this marriage one child, Carole Ann Maisels, was born on October 6, 1951. This marriage terminated in divorce on May 21, 1954. The parties lived separate and apart until…