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IN RE ADOPTION OF BRAGG

384 A.2d 435 (1978)

In re Petition for ADOPTION OF Marie Lynn BRAGG.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

March 31, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pine Tree Legal Assistance, Inc. by John Whitehouse Cobb, Bangor (orally) for respondent.

Cohen & Cohen by Barry A. Cohen, Bangor, Guardian ad Litem.

Stearns, Finnegan & Needham, P. A. by Kenneth L. Jordan, Jr., Bangor (orally), for petitioners.

Before McKUSICK, C. J., and POMEROY, WERNICK, ARCHIBALD, GODFREY and NICHOLS, JJ.

NICHOLS, Justice.

Joyce M. (Bragg) Sanborn and Galen R. Sanborn petitioned the Penobscot County Probate Court for leave to adopt Marie Lynn Bragg, Mrs. Sanborn's five-year-old daughter by her previous marriage. Upon notice to Jeffery L. Bragg, father of this child, he appeared to oppose the petition.

A question arising as to the rights of a natural father in proceedings such as this, brought pursuant to the provisions...

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