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· 4/19/1966

Hunter Adoption Case

Citations

  • 421 Pa. 287
  • 218 A.2d 764
  • 1966 Pa. LEXIS 656

How courts have described this case

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  • choosing Pennsylvania law to govern the validity of child-relinquishment forms because Pennsylvania had an “overriding and continuing interest” in the issue
  • choosing Pennsylvania law to govern the validity of child- relinquishment forms because Pennsylvania had an “overriding and continuing interest” in the issue
  • question of whether law of West Virginia or Pennsylvania applied in deciding if natural mother “consented” to adoption
  • Pennsylvania law applied to revocation of consent to adoption executed in West Virginia, where natural parent, adopting parents, and child were all domiciliaries of Pennsylvania and adopting parents brought action in Pennsylvania

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Musmanno, Jones, Cohen, Eagen, O'Brien, Roberts

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