In re S.R.

VICTORY, Judge.

This appeal arises from a suit filed on March 7, 1989 to annul a January 21, 1986 adoption of a minor child, D.V.B. The trial judge refused to annul the adoption, and plaintiffs appeal his judgment. We reverse.

FACTS

F.B. and K.B. were married on June 24, 1974, and physically separated three years later. On December 10, 1981, K.B., still living apart from F.B., gave birth to D.V.B., who may have been fathered by A.R.

S.R. and D.J.R., A.R.’s father and stepmother, were very close to K.B., and had kept D.V.B. for her many times before the adoption. In 1984, K.B. moved to Dallas to…