In re Bich Thi Nguyen

McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

On August 26,1976, the Probate Court of Cumberland County, on the petition of Ronald and Frances Ainaire, respondents-appel-lees herein, decreed the adoption by the Ainaires of the child Bich Thi Nguyen, then nine years of age. Some months later Khuyen Thi Nguyen, petitioner-appellant herein, brought before the same court a petition to annul that adoption decree and a request for custody of the child, alleging that “[petitioner ... is the natural mother of Bich.”1 The Probate Court denied her petition to annul, and Khuyen appealed to the Superior Court sitting as the…