STEIN, J., dissenting. In its attempt to resolve this difficult custody dispute between a child’s maternal grandparents and its natural father, the Court adopts too rigid a rule of law. It mandates that on the death of a parent (in this case the child’s mother) custody of the affected child must immediately revert to the surviving biological parent (the father) absent sufficient proof of unfitness to justify ter…
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