Huffman v. Grob

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• holding that adoption statute bars claims for visitation from former relatives
• holding that adoption statute bars claims for visitation from former relatives
• allowing siblings, grandparents and great-grandparents of adopted unmarried minor child to seek visitation with child where child’s father or mother is deceased and child is adopted by stepparent or grandparent
• “The purpose of the laws severing old family ties after adoption is to permit the new, adoptive family ties to solidify and to confer upon the new parent(s
• “The purpose of the laws severing old family ties after adoption is to permit the new, adoptive family ties to solidify and to confer upon the new parent(s) discretion to provide for the best interests of the adopted child without interference from the former relatives.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).