Prendergast v. Commissioner

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding, “In order to give a child a fresh start [after an adoption], all interests and rights between the biological parent and child are severed when that relationship is terminated.”
• denying inheritance rights to biological family when parent had legally severed relationship with child
• denying inheritance rights to biological family when parent had legally severed relationship with child

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).