Bridges v. Nicely

How courts have described this case

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• holding father could adopt non-marital child on theory that child acquired greater rights as an adopted child than he would have had if he had merely been acknowledged under the legitimation statute
• holding father could adopt non-marital child on theory that child acquired greater rights as an adopted child than he would have had if he had merely been acknowledged under the legitimation statute
• natural father, declared to be the father in a paternity action, sought to adopt his child
• natural father, declared to be the father in a paternity action, sought to adopt his child
• the adoption must be “clearly warranted”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).