Matter of Adoption of Perkins/Pollnow

Jack Holt, Jr., Chief Justice.

This is an adoption case. Jurisdiction is pursuant to Ark. Sup. Ct. R. 29(l)(c).

The appellants, Jim and Wilma Pollnow, assumed care and control of Angela Michelle Perkins/Pollnow in the summer of 1986 and became her legal guardians on September 17, 1986, when she was seventeen months old. Angela’s mother and father consented to the guardianship.

In November 1988, appellee, Jackie Perkins, filed a petition to adopt Angela in the Probate Court of Pulaski County. (In accordance with Ark. Code Ann. § 9-9-204(4)(iii) (1987), her husband, Calvin Perkins, was not…