Whitt v. Peoples

L. CHARLES WRIGHT, Retired Appellate Judge.

Tameka Whitt was born in 1986 to La-Sharn Whitt and Angela Nevels. The parents were high school students at the time of the birth. They never married. The child lived with her mother for approximately eighteen months. The mother and the paternal grandparents agreed that the paternal grandparents would take care of the child while the mother earned her nursing degree and became settled.

In 1988 the paternal grandparents adopted the child. The mother was not aware of the adoption until 1990. Upon discovery of the information, the mother sought legal…