In re Adoption of A. R. M.

By JUDGE ROBERT L. HARRIS, SR.

In this case the birth mother of a child who was adopted by respondents by final order of this court on May 26, 1988, filed a petition for habeas corpus seeking to set aside that final order of adoption and return to her custody of her daughter. The birth mother and the adoptive parents, in person and represented by counsel, appeared at an evidentiary hearing on April 11, 1990. The court took the case under advisement.

The facts are generally undisputed. The birth mother had physical custody of the child from the date of the child’s birth on November 8, 1984,…