IN RE ADOPTION/GUARDIANSHIP NO. 3598

No. 40, Sept. Term, 1996.

701 A.2d 110 (1997)

347 Md. 295

In re ADOPTION/GUARDIANSHIP NO. 3598 in the Circuit Court, for Harford County, Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

October 10, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leslie Scherr (Elisabeth J. Lyons, Seymour & Scherr, Washington, DC; Dawn Oxley Musgrave, Baltimore, all on brief), for Petitioner.

Alfred N. Kramer, Aberdeen, for Respondent.

Before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, BELL and RAKER, JJ.


BELL, Judge.

The instant case concerns the adoption of a female minor child born in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York. Over the objection of the biological father, pursuant to a private adoption agreement between the biological mother and prospective adoptive parents, the child was taken to Harford County, Maryland, where the adoptive parents, the petitioners, sought and were granted a decree of adoption. A divided...

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