IN RE ADOPTION OF R.H.


485 Pa. 157 (1979)

401 A.2d 341

In re ADOPTION OF R.H., a minor. Appeal of C.M.H. (Two cases) In re ADOPTION OF D.H., a minor.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided May 1, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis P. Vitti, Pittsburgh, for appellant.

Dina G. McIntyre, McIntyre & McIntyre, Pittsburgh, for Raymond and Mary Lou Gruseck.

John H. Auld, II, Howard S. Auld & Assoc., Allison Park, for Charles E. Wittmer, et ux.

Before EAGEN, C.J., and O'BRIEN, ROBERTS, NIX, MANDERINO and LARSEN, JJ.


OPINION OF THE COURT

ROBERTS, Justice.

Since February, 1977, Mr. and Mrs. G. have raised D.H., now age five, and Mr. and Mrs. W. have raised R.H., now four. Each couple has filed in the Orphans' Court Division of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County a petition to adopt the child in its custody for the past two years. In October, 1977, at the time hearings on the petitions to adopt were scheduled to begin, appellant, the natural mother of the proposed...

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