Mitchell v. John Doe

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• reasoning, “There is no policy stronger or more consistently followed in this state than that protecting the sanctity and privacy of adoptions. When an adoption has become final, previous ties to natural parents are completely severed and a wholly new relationship is created.”
• a necessary part of determining the legislative objective is to construe a statute sensibly in order to avoid an absurd result
• the legislature did not intend that the statute regarding visitation rights of noncustodial parents or others to alter the protection afforded adopted children and their new families from disturbances by the child’s natural family

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).