concluding that equitable adoption would not support foster parents’ claim to welfare benefits
How later courts described this case
- concluding that equitable adoption would not support foster parents’ claim to welfare benefits
- one who stands in loco parentis is not an adoptive parent
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
MR. JUSTICE GROVES
dissenting:
I reluctantly dissent. I like the majority opinion here and the dissent in United States Department of Agriculture v. Moreno, 413 U.S. 528 , 93 S.Ct. 2821 , 37 L.Ed.2d 782 (1973). I am unable, however, to distinguish the situation here with that in Moreno and feel that this decision forces me to say that here too there is a violation of equal protection.