IN MATTER OF ADOPTION OF R.P.R.

No. 79-1875.

98 Wis.2d 613 (1980)

297 N.W.2d 833

IN the MATTER OF the ADOPTION OF R. P. R.: Ronald and Margaret BRANDT, Appellants, v. Patricia Riordan WITZLING, Respondent-Petitioner.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided October 28, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the respondent-petitioner there was a brief by David L. Walther, John Sundquist and Walther & Halling of Milwaukee, and oral argument by David L. Walther.

For the appellants there were briefs by Stephen W. Hayes and von Briesen & Redmond, S. C., and Dale P. Gerdes and Gutknecht & Gerdes, and oral argument by Stephen W. Hayes, all of Milwaukee.

There were briefs and oral argument by Stanley F. Hack of Milwaukee, guardian ad litem.


Reversing 95 Wis.2d 573, 291 N.W.2d 591.

STEINMETZ, J.

This is a review of a decision of the court of appeals awarding custody of R.P.R., an infant, to Ronald and Margaret Brandt, the prospective adoptive parents. This decision reversed the order of the trial court which had awarded custody of the infant to petitioner, Patricia Riordan,

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