IN RE LEWIS' ADOPTION

No. 39580.

380 P.2d 697 (1963)

In re Appeal of the Adoption of Deborah Seyan LEWIS, Case No. 347 in the Children's Court of Oklahoma County. Betty Frances LEWIS, now Raulston, and William Noel Raulston, Plaintiffs in Error, v. Francis Earl LEWIS, Defendant in Error.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied April 16, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Henderson, James E. Grigsby, Oklahoma City, for plaintiffs in error.

Cargill, Cargill & Chiaf, by O.A. Cargill, Oklahoma City, for defendant in error.


JACKSON, Justice.

The decisive questions presented in this appeal are (1) whether appeals from a decree of adoption in the Children's Court of Oklahoma County should be taken to the district court or to the supreme court, and (2) whether the continuing jurisdiction of a district court over a minor child of the parties to a divorce action comes to an end when the child is adopted pursuant to children's court adoption proceedings...

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