J.C. v. Natural Parents

This appeal evolves from the Chancery Court of Scott County wherein J.C. and N.C.1, appellants, sought to adopt an infant child born November 21, 1980, and placed in their home on January 8, 1981, by the Scott County Welfare Department pursuant to a placement contract for foster care. After obtaining a surrender of parental rights and consent to adoption from the natural parents while both were incarcerated in jail, the Scott County Welfare Department sought to place the child with D.E.S. and J.A.S., intervenors, as prospective adoptive parents. From a decree dismissing their petition for…