Jacono Adoption Case

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Bell,

On June 30, 1966, Gabriel F. Trasatti and his wife Maureen H. Trasatti (nee Rumford) filed a petition for adoption seeking the adoption of Mrs. Trasatti’s son, John William Jacono (hereinafter called “John”). The Court granted the adoption and John’s father, William J. Jacono, Jr., appealed.

John, who was born in 1958, was the son of Jacono, the present appellant, and Mrs. Trasatti, who had been married to Jacono in 1957 and divorced in 1963, shortly before her marriage to Trasatti.

The Orphans’ Court granted the adoption, principally and inter alia, on the…