345 Pa. Super. 155 - Faust v. Messinger’s Empirical Analysis

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52 state decisions

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1. “[t]he entire body of law pertaining to adoption harmonizes in order to place an adopted child in the shoes of a natural child in all legal respects[.]”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 1999 Pa. Super. 276 - McNamara v. Thomas · C.G. v. J.H.

2. “[T]he entitlement claimed by appellant .does not amount to one which must be protected by the due process clause. It is an entitlement only to seek visitation which will be granted or denied as the best interests of the child dictate, 23 P.S. §§ 1012,1014. Prior to his adoption, while the statute entitled her to do so, appellant did not institute an action for visitation of her grandson, nor does she explain her failure to do so. Even if she had obtained a visitation order prior to the adoption proceeding, however, she would stand in the same position. Under the CGVA, both the incipient right to seek visitation and any visitation rights already established by court order are extinguished upon the adoption of the child, 23 P.S. § 1015. Such evanescent rights, first protected by statute in 1982, 23 P.S. § 1001 et seq., are not ones which activate the procedural protections of the due process clause. The limited, transitory nature of grandparental visitation privileges set forth in the statute convinces us that the privileges may properly be terminated in an adoption, just as all familial ties between an adoptee and other blood relatives are severed, without notice and without hearing.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hede v. Gilstrap