Legal Opinion
Peter Adoption Case
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Decided July 13, 1954No. Appeal, 66PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Hirt, J.,
In this proceeding for the adoption of Denise Marie Peter, the petitioners were an aunt and uncle of the child. The parents had separated and the mother, Dorothy Peter, had not consented to the adoption. When served with notice of the petition she contacted James Francis Lawler, Esq., through the Lawyers Reference Service of the Philadelphia Bar Association and arranged with him to represent her. He attended the hearing with her on June 24, 1953 and, in addition to cross-examining the petitioners and their witnesses, conducted the mother’s defense in contesting the…
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