Commonwealth Ex Rel. Grimes v. Yack

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the \best interests” of a child \is a legal concept and is not to be defined in psychiatric terms.”
• no standing under the Adoption Act exists for pre-adoptive parents who seek to gain custody of infant when they fail in their attempt to involuntarily terminate the parental rights of the natural parents
• “The relationship between parent and child should be broken only with the greatest reluctance.”
• no standing under the Adoption Act exists for pre-adoptive parents who seek to gain custody of infant when they fail in their attempt to involuntarily terminate the parental rights of the natural parents
• Adoption Act governs action by pre-adoptive parents who seek custody of infant by attempting to involuntarily terminate the parental rights of natural mother who revoked her consent to the adoption and natural father who never consented to the adoption
• Adoption Act governs action by pre-adoptive parents who seek custody of infant by attempting to involuntarily terminate the parental rights of natural mother who revoked her consent to the adoption and natural father who never consented to the adoption

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).