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DURIVAGE v. VINCENT

No. 4799.

102 N.H. 481 (1960)

FLOYD C. DURIVAGE & a. App'ts v. LORRAINE VINCENT & a. App'ees.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

Decided May 31, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerome L. Silverstein (by brief and orally), for the plaintiffs.

Louis C. Wyman, Attorney General and William J. O'Neil, Assistant Attorney General (Mr. O'Neil orally), for the Department of Public Welfare.

DUNCAN, J.

Adoption was unknown at common law and is wholly statutory. RSA ch. 461; Morse v. Osborne, 75 N.H. 487. "As adoption is in derogation of the common law right of the parent, consent of the natural parents is generally required and is a most important item of adoption proceedings." Blue v. Boisvert, 143 Me. 173, 179. In its earlier form the statute of this jurisdiction providing for adoption required that the natural parents should...

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