CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : MILPITAS : Adoptive Mother Wins Infant Custody

Custody of a 6-month-old Omaha boy--the center of court battles in California and Nebraska--has been awarded to a Milpitas woman, who moved to Omaha to press her claim for the child. A Douglas County, Neb. judge appointed Darline Conyers as permanent guardian of the baby, Jordan Breanne Devney. Conyers and her husband, Victor, were ordered by a California judge in January to return Jordan to her natural mother, Janette Devney. The judge ruled that California law did not recognize an adoption agreement in which Devney and the baby’s biological father agreed to give up the child. After the agreement was signed, Devney changed her mind about the adoption.