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ADOPTION OF SHAWN

No. 147.

65 Wis.2d 190 (1974)

222 N.W.2d 139

ADOPTION OF SHAWN: STYCZYNSKI, Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL SERVICES, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided October 14, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The cause was submitted for the appellant on the brief of N. Patrick Crooks, Vivi L. Dilweg, David Scott Norman and Crooks & Parins, S. C., all of Green Bay, and for the respondent on the brief of Robert W. Warren, attorney general, and Ward L. Johnson, assistant attorney general.

A brief amicus curiae was filed by Dennis W. Herrling and Herrling, Hamilton & Swain of Appleton for William Van Smith and Nancy Smith, petitioners for the adoption of Shawn in Outagamie county court.

Submitted under sec. (Rule) 251.54 September 10, 1974.

HEFFERNAN, J.

This is an appeal from an order of the county court of Oconto county which denied a petition for adoption on the ground that it had no jurisdiction to proceed. The trial court found that it was without jurisdiction because the petition for adoption was signed only by Goldeen Styczynski (who was then a married woman) and not jointly with her then...

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