Legal Opinion
Matter of Adoption of Baby Child
New Mexico Court of Appeals
Decided April 30, 1985No. 8190PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HENDLEY, Judge.
Intervenors, Alfred Pino (father) and the Pueblo of Laguna (Pueblo), appeal the children’s court’s failure to grant their motion to reopen the court’s judgment and order (1) determining that father had waived his consent to the baby’s adoption, and (2) decreeing that the prospective parents may adopt the child. Finding that the trial court lacked jurisdiction, we reverse.
On May 13, 1983, prospective parents petitioned the court to decree that they might adopt the child. The child was born two days earlier on May 11. The child was born out of wedlock to a Pueblo mother…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- State v. VogenthalerNew Mexico Court of Appeals · 1976
- State v. SisnerosNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1982
- Chavez v. County of ValenciaNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1974
- Worland v. WorlandNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1976
- State v. ReeseNew Mexico Court of Appeals · 1977
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians v. HolyfieldSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
- Matter of Adoption of HallowayUtah Supreme Court · 1986
- B.R.T. v. Executive Director of Social Service Board of North DakotaNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1986
- State v. WareNew Mexico Court of Appeals · 1993
- Deerman v. Board of County Commissioners of the County of Dona AnaNew Mexico Court of Appeals · 1993
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