In re the Adoption of J.L.T.

James R. Cooper, Judge.

The appellants in this adoption case filed a motion on January 27, 1988, to set aside a final decree of adoption entered on January 5, 1982, more than six years prior to the motion to set aside. In the petition, one of the appellants, Mary Lou Chance Ives, alleged that she is the natural mother of the two adopted children and that the adoptive parents, appellees, her mother and step-father, obtained her consent to the adoption by fraud. The other appellant, Mark Edward Jones, alleged that he was the natural father of the children and he asked the probate court to set…