In Re the Termination of Parental Rights of Ibanez

KONENKAMP, Justice.

[¶ 1.] In seeking to set aside her voluntary termination of parental rights, a mother alleged “fraud upon the court” because she was “secretly paid monetary consideration” and given “unenforceable secret promises” of continued visitation with her children, all of which were not disclosed in the step-parent adoption proceedings. The circuit court denied relief and she appeals.

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[¶2.] Jessica Ibanez, the mother, was born in El Salvador in 1978. When she was four years old, her family moved back to South Dakota. She grew up here, attended Northern State University, and obtained…