State Ex Rel. Brandon L. v. Moats

Before the deliverance of the majority’s decision herein, an order of adoption was considered to be a complete divestiture of an adoptee’s former familial and legal ties and the creation of a unique adoptive family unit with correspondingly new legal relationships among those family members. The Opinion in the ease sub judice, though, not only unsettles the once certain world of adoption, causing adoptees and adopters alike to constantly question the security of their court-established rights, it also contravenes the preeminent law of this State which dictates the applicability of new…