Court Opinion

ID: 9713717
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 05:20:42.901656+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:20.059995
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ROBERTS, Justice
(concurring).
I concur in the result. In my view, the orphans’ court correctly concluded that Debora’s grandparents failed to present sufficient evidence to establish their claim that the father “for a period of at least six months either has evidenced a settled purpose of relinquishing parental claim to [the child] or has refused or failed to perform parental duties.” Act of July 24, 1970, P.L. 620, No. 208, art. III, § 311(1), 1 P.S. § 311(1) (Supp.1974). Compare Wolfe Adoption Case, 454 Pa. 550, 312 A.2d 793 (1973), with Adoption of McCray, 460 Pa. 210, 331 A.2d 652 (1975); In re Cassen, 457 Pa. 525, 326 A.2d 377 (1974), and Appeal of Diane B., 456 Pa. 429, 321 A.2d 618 (1974). Furthermore, the record supports the orphans’ court’s decision to award custody of Debora to her father. See Commonwealth ex rel. Johnson v. Pinder, 217 Pa.Super. 180, 269 A.2d 511 (1970).
JONES, C. J., joins in this opinion.