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HARVEY ADOPTION CASE

375 Pa. 1 (1953)

Harvey Adoption Case.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

January 12, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman Landy, with him Norman Paul Wolken, George J. Barco, Wolken & Landy and Barco & Barco, for appellant.

Gerald D. Prather, with him Leland J. Culbertson, for appellees.

Before STERN, C.J., STEARNE, JONES, BELL, CHIDSEY and MUSMANNO, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HORACE STERN, January 12, 1953:

Proceedings for the adoption of a child must be carefully differentiated from those involving merely a question of its custody; they are of far greater import and involve more serious consequences. Custody may be awarded for a more or less temporary duration, but a decree of adoption terminates forever all relations between the child and its natural parents, severs...

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