Quilloin v. Walcott

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the “best interest of the child” evidentiary standard is all that is required in a child adoption proceeding
• holding that unwed fathers who do not reside with their children have no constitutional right to withhold consent to their adoption by resident stepfathers
• holding that the rights of the unwed father were not violated by the court's refusal to allow him to block adoption by the stepfather of an eleven-year-old child, where the unwed father had not previously participated in the child's life
• recognizing the relationship between parent and child as constitutionally protected
• noting, in 1978, the importance of the relationship between parent and child
• “We have recognized on numerous occasions that the relationship between parent and child is constitutionally protected.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).