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MOREY v. PEPPIN

No. C1-83-1835.

375 N.W.2d 19 (1985)

Rose Marie MOREY, Petitioner, Appellant, v. Gilbert PEPPIN, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

October 11, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joanne Thatcher Swanson, St. Paul, for appellant.

C.J. Knippel, Minneapolis, for respondent.

Martha A. Eaves and Ellen Gavin, St. Paul, for Southern Minn. Regional Legal Services, Inc.

Heard, considered and decided by the court en banc.

COYNE, Justice.

We have granted further review in this matter for determination of the proper statutory criteria to be applied in a post-paternity-adjudication custody dispute between parents of a child born out of wedlock. The court of appeals held that the adjudicated father had a constitutional right to have custody determined in an evidentiary hearing in which the criteria set out at Minn.Stat. § 518.17 (1984) would be applied. Morey v. Peppin,

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