Adoptive Parents of M.L v. v. Wilkens

How courts have described this case

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• that putative father's consent to an adoption may have been obtained through fraud was of no moment where father's consent was not required under the adoption statutes
• that putative father's consent to an adoption may have been obtained through fraud was of no moment where father's consent was not required under the adoption statutes
• “Because it is generally not difficult to determine the biological mother of a child, a mother’s legal obligations to her child arise when she gives birth.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).