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IN RE ADOPTION OF B.E.W.G.

379 Pa.Super. 264 (1988)

549 A.2d 1286

In re ADOPTION OF B.E.W.G. and S.L.W.G. Appeal of Howard L. WEST and Kay West.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Filed October 24, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald B. Hoyt, York, for appellants.

Wanda Neuhaus, York, for appellees.

Before CIRILLO, President Judge, and WIEAND and DEL SOLE, JJ.

WIEAND, Judge:

The issue in this appeal is whether the Orphans' Court in York County, Pennsylvania, could properly order an adoption of two minor children upon the sole consent of the children's father, who had killed the children's mother, while a custody action was pending in New York between the children's father and maternal grandparents, without notice to the maternal grandparents or the New York court in which the custody action was pending.

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