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A 4 page research paper that summarizes the case of Quilloin v. Wallcott, 434 U.S. 246 (1978), which is considered to be a landmark case in terms of child custody and adoption and the rights of an unwed father.
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custody and adoption and the rights of an unwed father. The parties involved were Leon Quilloin, an unmarried father, and Walcott, the mother of his child. The reason
the case was brought was due to the fact that Quilloin wished to block the adoption of his biological son by the man whom the mother of the child later
married. The main points of disagreement rested on the fact that this 11-year-old child lived with his mother and his mothers husband as a family unit. The biological
father had never sought to have a relationship with his son. Quilloin had, to this point, "little or not contact with the child for 11 years" (Holtzman, 2002, p. 335).
The Georgia Supreme Court found, and the US Supreme Court concurred, that due to this fact, Quilloin was not entitled "as a matter of due process and protection to an
absolute veto over adoption of his child," which was the principal point argued on behalf of the plaintiff (Holtzman, 2002, p. 335). Any constitutionally protected rights that might have
originally been attributed to Quilloin as the biological father were forfeited because he did not establish a parental relationship with the child (Holtzman, 2002). The Courts majority opinion justified this
decision based on the fact that Quilloin had "never exercised actual or legal custody over the child," nor had he been responsible at any point, even for a limited time,
for the "daily supervision, education, protection or care of the child" (Holtzman, 2002, p. 335). It was also evident in the thinking of the Court that it was significant that
Quilloin and the childs mother had never lived together or established a home together (Holtzman, 2002). In this case, the Court makes it clear that it is not the
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