In Re Adoption of Hammer

JACOBSON, Presiding Judge.

These consolidated appeals come to us from the dismissals of a natural mother’s petitions to vacate orders of adoption of her two minor children, entered some five years prior to the filing of the petition.

There were originally two petitions for the adoption of the minor children involved in this consolidated matter filed in 1963 by the Maricopa County Attorney acting pursuant to A.R.S. § 8-102, subsec. B (1956), on behalf of the paternal grandparents of the children involved. These original adoption petitions were accompanied by the written consent to adoption…