Court Opinion

ID: 9669934
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 03:11:13.543134+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:01.228013
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McCALEB, Justice
(concurring).
While I am in accord with the rulings in this case, I do not subscribe to the personal observations and criticisms of the author of the main opinion respecting the jurisprudence of this State established in Green v. Paul, 212 La. 337, 31 So.2d 819 and In re Byrd, 226 La. 194, 75 So.2d 331. These decisions are founded on our interpretation and analysis of our own laws, of which adoption is a creature. See Owles v. Jackson, 199 La. 940, 7 So.2d 192, 194. In the first case (Green v. Paul), we gave full consideration to the jurisprudence of other states and found that our views were supported by cases from Missouri, California, Minnesota, Washington, Michigan and Mississippi, to which may be added the states of Ohio and New York.1 Indeed, the statement made on page 4 of the main opinion in this case, 233 La. 8, 96 So. 2d 22, that our jurisprudence is “contrary to the law of many other states”, is not accurate in my view, unless the holdings in four states (Massachusetts, Kentucky, Ore*15gon and Texas) are considered to be “many”.
I concur in the decree.

. See State ex rel. Scholder v. Scholder, 22 Ohio Law R. 608, 2 O.L.A. 471; In re Rubin’s Adoption, Ohio Prob.Ct., 6 Ohio Supp. 26; French v. Catholic Community League, 69 Ohio App. 442, 44 N.E.2d 113 and In re Anonymous, 178 Misc. 142, 33 N.Y.S.2d 793, 798, where the New York court cogently remarked: “adoption being a creature of the statute and dependent for its consummation upon approval of the court, any agreement of the parties or any one of them is necessarily conditional; the parties thereto are powerless to confer upon each other any absolute rights pertaining to the parenthood of a child without complying with the pertinent statutory requirements and securing the approval of the court.”