Joan Hollinger Criticizes Harsh Utah Ruling in Baby Emma Case

The Washington Post, April 14, 2010 by Jerry Markon
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/13/AR2010041302445.html

Joan Hollinger, a University of California at Berkeley professor and a leading authority on adoption law, called Utah’s decisions in the Baby Emma case “outrageous” because Wyatt filed for custody in Virginia just eight days after Emma’s birth. Utah laws and court decisions, she said, “make it virtually impossible for an out-of-state father to prevent the adoption of an out-of-wedlock child when the mother is determined to go forward.”