In re Adoption of Baby C.

This case involves the right of natural parents to withdraw their consent to adoption prior to the entry of an interlocutory decree. The case was heard by a Master {Harry C. Lichman, Esq.), who found that the withdrawal of consent to adoption was not in the child’s best interest. The master’s finding was approved by the Hillsborough County Probate Court {Spanos, J.), and the natural parents’ petition to withdraw consent to adoption was denied. We affirm.

The natural mother conceived a child at age seventeen and was indecisive as to whether she should raise the child or allow it to be adopted.…