Adoptions of K.N.D. and D.J.D.

The paternal grandparents, seeking to adopt their two grandchildren, petitioned the probate court. Both parents of the children *905signed consent forms agreeing to the adoption. A hearing was held on March 24,1993, and the court entered orders on that date, granting the adoptions. On May 13, 1993, the mother filed a petition to set aside the adoptions, alleging, among other things, that she had suffered “severe emotional and physical abuse” during her marriage to the father and had signed the consent forms under “undue influence”; that she had been threatened that if she did not consent to the…