Adoption of Bergna CA6

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Appellant was born on December 2, 1952. On April 21, 1954, appellant’s adoptive parents, Louis and Patricia Bergna, filed a Petition for Adoption in Santa Clara County Superior Court. The petition averred: “That [appellant] was wholly abandoned and deserted by [his] parents without provision for [his] identification or for their identification, or for the identification of either of them; that on the 2nd day of December, 1952, at the approximate hour of 11:30 A.M. said child was turned over and placed in the custody of Louis P. Bergna by [his] mother, in the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, without any provision or means whatsoever being made or left by said mother, or by any other person, for the identification of said child, nor of said parent or parents, or either of them; that at the time of turning said child over to Louis P. Bergna and at a conference before that date, the natural mother of the child represented that the child was illegitimate, and that the mother had and was going to in the future take every step necessary to keep her identification and any association between herself and the child from becoming known.”…