A. B. v. Arkansas Social Services

George Rose Smith, Justice.

This guardianship case has to do with Anne, a child born in Arkansas in 1978. She was later placed in the custody of Arkansas Social Services. In June, 1979, the juvenile court of Pulaski county granted Social Service’s petition for authority to file a proceeding in the probate court for the appointment of a guardian for the child with power to consent to her adoption without notice to the child’s natural parents. Ark. Stat. Ann. § 56-126 (Supp. 1979).

The present proceeding was accordingly filed in probate court in March, 1980. About a month earlier the child’s…