Schrum ex rel. Gaither v. Bolding

John A. Fogleman, Justice.

This tragic case involves the infant child of adolescent parents and the problems of society in endeavoring to make the best of the means at hand to suitably provide for its future. It reaches us on appeal from a final decree of adoption and the denial of the minor mother’s petition to annul an interlocutory decree. We find merit in her contention that the probate court erred in failing to set aside the interlocutory order and reverse.

This child, Terry Lynn Schrum, was born in Bartlesville, Oklahoma on February 20, 1974 to Tim Schrum and Pamela Schrum. Pamela was…