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BERRIEN v. GREENE CTY. DEPT. OF PUB. WELFARE

Record No. 740917.

217 S.E.2d 854 (1975)

Merle S. BERRIEN v. GREENE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE and an infant.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

September 5, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carroll Kem Shackelford, Culpeper, for plaintiff in error.

John R. Bushey, Jr., Luray (L. B. Chandler, Jr., Charlottesville, on brief), for defendants in error.

Before I'ANSON, C. J., and CARRICO, HARRISON, COCHRAN, HARMAN, POFF and COMPTON, JJ.

COCHRAN, Justice.

In this appeal we are concerned with the custody of an infant daughter, born out of wedlock on September 21, 1967, to Merle S. Berrien and John D. Hess.

This litigation was initiated on March 4, 1971, when Hess filed a petition in the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court of Greene County (the juvenile court) seeking custody of the child and alleging that Berrien, the mother, was neglecting and...

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