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Use Of The Court Order Of Relinquishment In Adoption Proceedings In Washington, John W. Sweet

Washington Law Review

The necessity for the court order of relinquishment in adoption proceedings in Washington has until recently presented a confusing problem.

Wills--Adopted Child As "Issue" Within Meaning Of Anti-Lapse Statute, George A. Rinker

Michigan Law Review

Testatrix, by her will, left the residue of her estate to her two sisters, their heirs and assigns forever. Appellee, an adopted daughter of one sister who predeceased testatrix, claimed one half of the residue by substitution under the Ohio anti-lapse statute. Held, an adopted child is "issue" within the meaning of the anti-lapse statute, which in terms provides that issue of a predeceased devisee will take. Appellee takes by substitution for her adoptive mother. Flynn v. Bredbeck, (Ohio 1946) 68 N.K (2d) 75.

Withdrawal Of Consent

Indiana Law Journal

Notes and Comments: Adoption

Construction Of Private Instrument's Where Adopted Children Are Concerned: I, J. Wesley Oler

Michigan Law Review

The institution of adoption is of ancient tradition, knowing primitive origin and tracing its history through many civilizations. Today its universality still bespeaks the human needs from which it springs.

Recent growth of statutory reforms, procedural and substantive, in our adoption system reflects the increasing social interest of the state in this field. Procedurally, extensive strides have been made to safeguard those directly concerned in adoption, and through them to protect the public in general. Substantively the lagging but nonetheless noticeable trend is toward complete legal equivalence between relationship by adoption and relationship by blood. At present, however, such equivalence …

The Conflict Of Laws: A Comparative Study. Volume One. Introduction: Family Law, Ernst Rabel

Michigan Legal Studies Series

Full application of comparative methods to the law of conflicts requires a working plan of some magnitude. We ought to take stock of the conflicts rules existing in the different countries of the world, state their similarities or dissimilarities, and investigate their purposes and effects. The solutions thus ascertained should moreover be subjected to an estimation of their usefulness, by the standards appropriate to their natural objective. Conflicts rules have to place private life and business relations upon the legal background suitable to satisfactory intercourse among states and nations. They are valuable to the extent that their practical functioning, rather …

Adoption In Maryland, John S. Strahorn Jr.

Maryland Law Review

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Adoption In Indiana, Julian Bamberger

Indiana Law Journal

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Adoption-Right Of Parent To Notice

Indiana Law Journal

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Adoption--Effect Of Informal Adoption In Equity, Charles W. Caldwell

West Virginia Law Review

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Adoption-Domicile-Infants-Residence

Indiana Law Journal

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Wills-Construction-Right Of Adopted Child To Take Under Provision For Children Of Adoptive Parext

Michigan Law Review

The trustee under the will sued for a construction of a clause providing for a gift to testator's children. The dispute was between the natural children of the testator and an adopted daughter, who claimed under the clause as one of the "children," though a prior clause gave her $1, naming her as testator's adopted daughter. The Rhode Island statute provided that adopted children be deemed for inheritance purposes the same as if natural children. The court held that the adopted daughter did not take with the natural children under the clause in question. Union Trust Co. v. Campi (R. …

Descent And Distribution-Status And Inheritance Rights Of Adopted Child

Michigan Law Review

The adoption of the children of another person is said to have been unknown to the common law. In re Johnson, 98 Cal. 531; Morrison v. Sessions, 70 Mich. 297, 14 Am. St. Rep. 500. However, the status of adopted children is one of very ancient origin, existing in Biblical times, Romans 8:15; 9:4:, and was developed to a high degree by the Greeks and Romans. Provisions for child adoption were incorporated in the Code of Justinian, SANDERS, JUSTINIAN; Am. ed. 103 et seq., and took their place in the jurisprudence of all countries in which the civil …

Courts--Jurisdiction To Vacate Order Of Adoption After Term (Comment On Recent Cases), Bernard C. Gavit

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Some Aspects Of The Status Of Children In Missouri, Eldon R. James

University of Missouri Bulletin Law Series

In two recent decisions of the Supreme Court of Missouri, Drake v. Milton Hospital Association and Lindsley v. Patterson, some of the problems arising in connection with the position of illegitimate and adopted children have been discussed. This study will deal with the various kinds of status of children in Missouri law, the condition under which each may come into existence, and the rights of inheritance which flow from each of them.