Legal Opinion
In Re Adoption of a Minor
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided January 3, 1952No. 10940PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FAHY, Circuit Judge.
After a hearing participated in by all parties entitled to do so, and after considering the reports of the Board of Public Welfare and of the guardian ad litem, the District Court granted a petition for the adoption of an infant girl born in 1941. The adopting petitioner is now the husband of the natural mother of the child, who was born to her and her former husband. The mother consents to the adoption but her former husband, the child’s natural father, does not, and appeals from the adoption decree.
Where the natural father of a child born in wedlock, as in the present…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Securities & Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Catlett v. Chestnut, as Exr.Supreme Court of Florida · 1933
- In re Adoption of a MinorDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 1946
3Cited by4 opinions
- United States v. Samuel KaplanCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1974
- In Re Adoption of a MinorCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1954
- In Re Adoption of a MinorCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1953
- In Re Adoption of a MinorCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1954