1. Home
  2. Browse Decisions
  3. P.2d
  4. 741 P.2d
  5. 741 P.2d 1386 (1985)
 

MATTER OF ADOPTION OF D.M.J.

No. 59960.

741 P.2d 1386 (1985)

In the Matter of the ADOPTION OF D.M.J., a minor child. Parker Jr. JOHNSON, Appellant, v. Trina Dea HOWARD and William King Howard, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

As Corrected November 18 and November 27, 1985.

Rehearing Denied September 16, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward L. Munson, Tahlequah, for appellant.

Monte W. Strout and Kathy Carter-White, Tahlequah, for appellees.

Tina Jordan, Tahlequah, for intervenor Cherokee Nation.

Susan Work Haney and Sue Wycoff, Okl. Indian Legal Services, Oklahoma City, for amicus curiae Okl. Indian Child Welfare Ass'n.

SUMMERS, Justice.

D.M.J. is a ten year old, half-Indian girl whose custody was awarded to her non-Indian mother in the 1976 divorce of her parents. In 1982 with the consent of the natural mother, an adoption was arranged with a married couple, appellees, who also happened to be non-Indian.1 With the Petition for Adoption was filed an Application For Adoption Without Consent of Natural Father...

Let's get started

Leagle.com

Welcome to the leading source of independent legal reporting
Sign on now to see your case.
Or view more than 10 million decisions and orders.

  • Updated daily.
  • Uncompromising quality.
  • Complete, Accurate, Current.

Listed below are the cases that are cited in this Featured Case. Click the citation to see the full text of the cited case. Citations are also linked in the body of the Featured Case.

Cited Cases

  • No Cases Found

Listed below are those cases in which this Featured Case is cited. Click on the case name to see the full text of the citing case.

Citing Cases