Matter of Adoption of a Minor

How courts have described this case

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• allowing grandparent visitation rights where parents had abandoned child or proven unfit to have custody of child
• “By our Constitution and ancient law, a court of equity is the superior guardian for all persons under a disability, and [it is] under a duty to make a searching inquiry on matters affecting their welfare.”
• “The daughter, a minor herself, and also the grandchild were living in the home of the Smiths [the adoptive parents]. While we do not for a moment intimate that in this case it in fact occurred, such a factual scenario affords too much opportunity for over-reaching for comfort.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).