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In the Matter of Rivers

17 I&N Dec. 419 (B.I.A. 1980)
In the Matter of Rivers

7 Cited authorities

  1. In re Richard M

    14 Cal.3d 783 (Cal. 1975)   Cited 40 times
    In Richard M., the California Supreme Court addressed whether a father’s conduct with respect to his son was sufficient to legitimate his son pursuant to former Civil Code section 230, which required in part that he receive his son into his family.

  2. Donnally v. Blankenstein

    167 Cal.App.2d 282 (Cal. Ct. App. 1959)   Cited 4 times

    Docket No. 18245. January 22, 1959. APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco amending a custody award to take the physical custody of a child from the father and award it to the mother. Orla St. Clair, Judge. Affirmed. Philip Adams and Reginald G. Hearn for Appellant. Lange Rockwell for Respondent. DOOLING, J. Plaintiff, the father of the minor child Laura Helen-Christa Donnally, appeals from an order of the court amending a custody award to take the physical

  3. In re Sutton

    53 S.E.2d 839 (W. Va. 1949)   Cited 10 times

    No. 10102 Submitted April 19, 1949. Decided June 7, 1949. Appeal from Circuit Court, Raleigh County. Proceeding in the matter of Daniel Ray Sutton, an infant, by Frank Wright and another, parents, against E.W. Worrell, agent for the department of police assistance, and others to set aside a judgment of the juvenile court involving custody of named child and restore petitioners to their full parental rights. To review an order of the circuit court refusing a writ of error to a judgment of the juvenile

  4. In re Navarro

    77 Cal.App.2d 500 (Cal. Ct. App. 1946)   Cited 9 times

    Docket No. 1975. December 31, 1946. APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Lassen County discharging a writ of habeas corpus. James O. Moncur, Judge assigned. Affirmed. Fontaine Johnson and Thomas C. Perkins for Appellant. Hardin Barry for Respondent. ADAMS, P.J. This is an appeal from an order of the Superior Court of Lassen County discharging a writ of habeas corpus, in a proceeding initiated by Luis Navarro, who sought thereby to secure the custody of a female child of the age of about

  5. Allison et al. v. Bryan

    21 Okla. 557 (Okla. 1908)   Cited 26 times

    No. 2049, Okla. T. Opinion Filed June 25, 1908. 1. BASTARDS — Legitimation — Acknowledgement — Reception into Family. Under the terms of section 36, art. 2, c. 59 (section 3795) Wilson's Rev. Ann. St. 1903, the father of an illegitimate minor child, by publicly acknowledging it as his own, receiving it as such, with the consent of his wife, if he be married, into his family, and otherwise treating it as if it were a legitimate child, thereby adopts or legitimates such child, and it acquires the legal

  6. Section 1101 - Definitions

    8 U.S.C. § 1101   Cited 16,401 times   91 Legal Analyses
    Finding notice and comment rulemaking is required for the agency's interim rule recognizing fear of coercive family practices as basis for refugee status

  7. Section 1153 - Allocation of immigrant visas

    8 U.S.C. § 1153   Cited 1,166 times   10 Legal Analyses
    Determining an applicant's age as " the age of the alien on the date on which an immigrant visa number becomes available for such alien . . . but only if the alien has sought to acquire the status of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence within one year of such availability; reduced by (B) the number of days in the period during which the applicable petition . . . was pending"