the consequence of adoption is to divest the natural parent of all legal rights and obligations to the child; such abrogation of all legal relationship and rights as to a natural parent must likewise apply to the grandparent of an adopted child
How later courts described this case
- the consequence of adoption is to divest the natural parent of all legal rights and obligations to the child; such abrogation of all legal relationship and rights as to a natural parent must likewise apply to the grandparent of an adopted child
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
I simply cannot reject any claimed rights of the grandparents without first allowing them the opportunity to be heard or having some proceeding to determine if visitation would be in the best interests of the children.
FAULKNER, J., concurs.