WILLMOTT v. DECKER

No. 5809.

541 P.2d 13 (1975)

Peter Wade WILLMOTT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Kathryn Anne Scott DECKER, Defendant-Appellee. In the Matter of the ADOPTION OF a MALE MINOR CHILD, born on August 23, 1971.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

September 29, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Victor Conde, Legal Aid Society of Hawaii, Lihue, for plaintiff-appellant.

Ronald Allan Harms, Harms & Kahu, Lihue, for defendant-appellee.

Before RICHARDSON, C.J., and KOBAYASHI, OGATA, MENOR and KIDWELL, JJ.


MENOR, Justice.

This is an appeal from the judgment of the family court, dismissing the appellant's complaint for a determination of his visitation rights, and from the decree of adoption granted over the appellant's opposition.

The appellant is the natural father of a child born out of wedlock on August 23, 1971. He and the child's mother had lived together and held themselves out as husband and wife for several years prior to the birth of the child. They...

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