Natural Mother v. Adopting Parents

JOHN A. McGUIRE, Judge of Superior Court.

The dates and names are not set forth in this opinion and have been deleted from any direct quotations from the record. We will refer to the child as the child; to the natural parents as the father and mother; to the adopting parents as the adopting parents or as may be appropriate as the adopting father and the adopting mother.

The father and mother were husband and wife and had been for an appropriate time before the birth of the child. The mother is a member of a respectable working family and she was employed before her marriage. It was not until…