Legal Opinion
Skeens v. Paterno
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided September 7, 1984No. 1390, 1576, September Term, 1983PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ADKINS, Judge.
Although this suit began as a battle about adoption, it is now essentially a dispute about visitation rights of the father and paternal grandparents of an illegitimate child.
On January 21, 1983, appellant Debra Skeens, then an unmarried minor, bore a child. The father was appellee Jeffrey Paterno, an enlisted member of the United States Navy. Debra declined Jeffrey’s offer of marriage. Prior to the child’s birth, she and her parents, appellants Edward and Dorothy Skeens, had made plans to place the child for adoption. Three days after the child’s birth, Jeffrey sued Debra…
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