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MATTER OF GUARDIANSHIP OF PHIFER

No. 54361.

644 P.2d 1382 (1981)

In the Matter of the GUARDIANSHIP OF Lisa Ann PHIFER, a minor child.

Court of Appeals of Oklahoma, Division No. 2.

Rehearing Denied January 5, 1982.

Released for Publication April 23, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas H. Tucker, Gerald E. Kelley, Dept. of Institutions, Social and Rehabilitative Services, Oklahoma City, for appellant.

Virgil L. Upchurch, Buzbee & Upchurch, Anadarko, for appellee.

Released for Publication by Order of the Court of Appeals April 23, 1982.

BRIGHTMIRE, Presiding Judge.

The seminal question is whether the Department of Institutions, Social and Rehabilitative Services of Oklahoma has a legal right to intervene as next friend in a guardianship proceeding relating to a five-year-old child whose father has died leaving a sizable estate and whose mother abandoned her at birth. The trial court held it did not and dismissed the...

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