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NESIBA v. TAYLOR

433 A.2d 720 (1981)

Ella Van NESIBA and Bobbie Nesiba v. Toby TAYLOR.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided August 21, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Silsby & Silsby, Leigh A. Ingalls (orally), William S. Silsby, Jr., Ellsworth, for petitioners.

Roger G. Chagnon (orally), Salisbury Cove, for respondent.

Before McKUSICK, C. J., and WERNICK, GODFREY, ROBERTS and CARTER, JJ.

GODFREY, Justice.

On June 19, 1979, Bobbie and Ella Nesiba filed in Probate Court petitions to adopt Mrs. Nesiba's two children from her former marriage to Toby Taylor and to have the children's surnames changed from Taylor to Nesiba. Besides alleging their own abilities to care for the children, the Nesibas claimed that Toby Taylor, the children's natural father, had not "seen, communicated with, or supported said [children] over the past several years."

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