Holcomb v. Bomar

This is an adoption case. The appeal involves two separate adoptions of the same child. The natural mother appeals from a judgment upholding the validity of both adoptions and establishing the child's aunt and uncle as the proper adoptive parents.

In October 1970 the appellant, a seventeen-year-old married woman, gave birth to a son. Thereafter appellant and the father of the child separated and were subsequently divorced in April 1972. Later that year the father's parents, the paternal grandparents, filed a petition to adopt the child. The appellant and the father, as natural parents of the…