DeGOLYER v. CHESNEY

Nos. 44406, 46561.

527 P.2d 844 (1974)

John H. DeGOLYER, Appellant, v. James Lee CHESNEY and Mary Lou Chesney, Appellees. John H. DeGOLYER and Sandra DeGolyer, Appellants, v. James Lee CHESNEY, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

October 8, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rucker, Tabor, McBride & Hopkins, Donald G. Hopkins, Dale Warner, and Jeff King, Tulsa, for appellants.

Shepherd, Maner & Brunton, Robert L. Shepherd, Tulsa, for appellee.


BARNES, Justice:

The central figure in these consolidated appeals is Denise Ann DeGolyer [now Chesney], whose care, custody, visitation, and adoption has had attention from courts in two States on various occasions over a period of more than four years.

Denise, born May 31, 1964, was adopted in Rochester, New York by John H. DeGolyer and his then wife, Mary Lou, in 1965.

Later, when this couple separated in...

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