Matter of Terry

BILLINGS, Justice.

The sole question presented is whether the natural mother of Maggie Lynn Terry timely revoked her consent to adoption of the child, thereby withdrawing from the Clerk of Superior Court the authority to enter the Final Order of Adoption on 15 November 1983.

On 13 July 1983, Sandra Kay Kinder Summerall executed a form consenting to the adoption of her daughter, Maggie Lynn Terry, by the petitioners, Michael Lee Terry, Sr. and La Verne Crabtree Terry. Mr. and Mrs'. Terry are the parents of Michael Lee Terry, Jr., the putative father of the child, who was living with the child’s…