Falbo v. Howard

Richard L. Mays, Justice.

When Robert and Linda Falbo, appellants herein, learned that an infant child of whom they had recently obtained custody as foster parents from the Arkansas Division of Social Services was going to be removed from their home and placed with Stephen and Judy Schlobohm for adoption, they promptly filed a petition for adoption of the child with the Pope County Probate Court. Nine days later the Scholobohms filed a petition to intervene in the Falbos’ adoption proceedings and a petition for adoption, attaching a consent to adoption signed by Ivan Smith, the child’s legal…