Wold v. Funderburg

Littlejohn, Justice.

In July, 1964, Louis G. Funderburg and Myrtis P. Funderburg, husband and. wife, procured from the Superior Court of Richmond County, Georgia, a decree of adoption of Marty Allen Crawford Funderburg and Melody Ann Crawford Funderburg, who are the natural children of Donna Wold and of her divorced husband, John Allen Crawford. The record in this proceeding includes the apparent consenting signatures of both parents as required by the Georgia adoption statutes.

Thereafter, Donna Wold brought an action in the same Georgia court against the adopting parents only, to invalidate…