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IN RE ADOPTION OF F____

No. 12414.

488 P.2d 130 (1971)

26 Utah 2d 255

In the Matter of the ADOPTION OF F____.

Supreme Court of Utah.

August 4, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clyde, Mecham & Pratt, Elliott Lee Pratt, Salt Lake City, for appellant.

Don R. Petersen, Howard & Lewis, Provo, for respondent.

CROCKETT, Justice.

In anomalous contrast to the usual controversies over money or property, the opposing parties here are contesting for the right to incur an economic liability of many thousands of dollars.1 That is, for something more precious to them: the right to the custody of a child. The dispute is between the natural mother, who relinquished her child for adoption shortly after his birth...

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