Skipper v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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• parent retains right to consent to child's adoption despite transfer of legal custody to another person
• right to consent to adoption is a residual right retained by a parent notwithstanding the transfer of legal custody of the child to another person
• right to consent to adoption is a residual right retained by a parent notwithstanding the transfer of legal custody of the child to another person

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).