The opinion of the court was delivered by HANDLER, J.A.D.
In this most unusual adoption case, one parent murdered the other. The overriding issue created by this occurrence is whether the natural father as the guilty parent had thereby forsaken his parental obligations to the child of the marriage and thus forfeited his legal rights as parent under the adoption statute.
On November 25, 1973 the maternal grandparents of the child, J, filed an adoption complaint...
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