Worley v. Worley’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “The court concluded with the following: We wish to point out that allowing the natural grandparent of a minor child of an adopted adult to seek visitation will not create a precedent for natural grandparents of. adopted children., to seek visitation rights with those children. This is because the child himself will have had his former family ties directly severed by the adoption judgment. We also note that any children of an adopted adult born after the judgment of adoption is entered would have no relationship with its natural grandparents, in that a new lineal descendan-cy was created by the adoption of that parent before their- birth.... They would therefore be descendants of the adoptive parents through the adoptee. However, in cases such as the one herein, when the child was born while his father was still a lineal descendant of his natural grandfather, the child was born a lineal descendant of his natural grandfather and, as pointed out above, no judgment has operated on him, with the statutorily required consent of his parents, to sever that tie in favor of an adoptive family.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. In Re Guardianship of JEM · Handshoe v. Ridgway

2. “effectively arguing that, since he was adopted, any [of his] children are automatically adopted as well.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. In Re Guardianship of JEM · Walls v. Walls

3. “[A] child such as the one herein is not only the descendant of the adopted parent, but of the other parent as well. No judgment of adoption of a minor, so that the severance argued for herein could occur, can be granted unless written consent has been executed after the birth of the minor by the mother and in most cases the father. [Cit.] There is absolutely no evidence that any such consent was executed herein or indeed that adoption of the minor child was ever at issue. Therefore, the "automatic" adoption effectively argued by the [father] as a legal result of his own adoption cannot occur.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Walls v. Walls