WOODWARD, Deputy Attorney General., October 8, 1951.
The Department of Justice is in receipt of your letter requesting us to clarify the extent of authority and jurisdiction of a juvenile court, acting as a substitute parent of its ward, where the natural parents are still alive and available.
You state that your question arises out of the case of a 20-year-old mental defective of moron grade who was declared a dependent child by the Juvenile Court of Bedford...
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