Washington County Department of Public Welfare v. Konar

ROBERTSON, Judge.

The petitioner-appellant Welfare Department is appealing a judgment which ended proceedings to terminate the parental rights of the respondent-appellee Konar. We affirm.

The two issues raised by the Welfare Department are whether a voluntary relinquishment of parental rights can be unilaterally rescinded without a hearing and whether the trial court applied the appropriate law to the case.

The sequence of events relevant to the appeal is that Konar gave birth to a child on April 16, 1979. On April 18, she executed a voluntary termination of parental rights on a form furnished…