Rettew Adoption Case’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
January 1974
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hazuka's Case · Hunter Adoption Case
Most-quoted passages
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““That rule, as proclaimed in the Adoption Act of April 4, 1925 (P. L. 127, §1, as amended, 1 P.S. §l(a)), and as set forth by this Court in many cases, such as Hunter Adoption Case, 421 Pa. 287, 292 , is that a child may not be taken from a parent through adoption proceedings unless it is demonstrated ‘that the parent intended to give up the child absolutely, never to claim it again, and that this intention was manifested for a period of at least six months.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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