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COURTNEY v. RICHMOND

No. 1557, September Term, 1982.

55 Md. App. 382 (1983)

462 A.2d 1223

VERNON R. COURTNEY v. JOHN HENRY RICHMOND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided July 12, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvin Hoffman for appellant.

Allen W. Cohen, with whom were Goodman, Cohen & Bennett, P.A. on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before LISS and BISHOP, JJ., and JOSEPH I. PINES, Associate Judge of the Eighth Judicial Circuit, specially assigned.

BISHOP, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

The appellant, Vernon R. Courtney, filed in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County a Petition for Adoption of his step-daughter, Lamanda Delores Richmond. Appellant's wife, Mary Ellen Courtney, the child's biological mother, joined in the petition, consenting to the adoption, but reserving her rights. The appellee, John H. Richmond, the biological father of the child, filed a "Counter-Claim and Cross-Petition to Establish...

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