MATTER OF ADOPTION OF D.P.

No. CF 1.

583 P.2d 706 (1978)

In the Matter of the ADOPTION OF D.P. In the Matter of the ADOPTION OF F.P.

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

August 17, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George L. Arnold, Director, Wyoming Legal Services Program, and Ronald D. Copenhaver, Student Intern, Wyoming Legal Services Program, Laramie, for appellant.

Arthur L. Garfield, Cheyenne; and Jack R. Gage, of Hanes & Gage, P.C., Cheyenne, for appellee.

Before GUTHRIE, C.J., and McCLINTOCK, RAPER, THOMAS and ROSE, JJ.


ROSE, Justice.

These appeals are from the entry of separate final decrees of adoption affecting the care and custody of two minor boys. Appellant is the mother of the boys, while the appellee is the stepmother of the father of D.P. At the time of D.P.'s birth, his mother was not married. The other boy, F.P., was born while appellant was married to a man unrelated to appellee. On November 21, 1975, separate interlocutory decrees of adoption were entered — premised...

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