MATTER OF ADOPTION OF BABY BOY D

No. 62024.

742 P.2d 1059 (1985)

In the Matter of the ADOPTION OF BABY BOY D, a minor child.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied September 16, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan Work Haney, Gary Taylor, Oklahoma City, for appellant.

William Buxton, Leach, Sullivan, Green & Buxton, Duncan, Rex K. Travis, Oklahoma City, J. Michael Viscosi, Duncan, for appellees.


SUMMERS, Justice.

Appellant was a 19 year old member of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma when his former girlfriend, an unmarried 17 year old non-Indian, gave birth to Baby Boy D. With her consent the infant was adopted by the appellees, a married couple. After learning of the adoption without notice to him and without his consent, he filed a petition in the District Court, claiming to be the father and seeking to vacate...

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