MARCKWARDT v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. 69194.

150 Cal.App.3d 471 (1984)

198 Cal. Rptr. 41

MARC WILFRIED MARCKWARDT, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; ROBERT MICHAEL SOTO, Real Party in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Seven.

January 4, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Joan Tremblay Gordon for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Thomas S. Powers and Harold J. Cohn for Real Party in Interest.


OPINION

SCHAUER, P.J.

We must determine whether the Legislature, in recently extending the jurisdiction of the family court to grant a spouse visitation rights to "a minor child of the other [spouse]" (Civ. Code, § 4351.5), empowered the court to award a natural father visitation of his children after their adoption by his former wife's new husband.

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