Wuertz v. Craig

WILLIAMS, Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision of the trial court refusing to allow plaintiff Elizabeth Wuertz to revoke consent to an adoption.

On February 11, 1982, plaintiff signed an act of surrender transferring custody of her child to defendant, David Craig, an attorney representing unnamed parents, for the purposes of adoption. At some time after the signing of this document, plaintiff apparently changed her mind and intended to revoke this consent. Defendant refused to acknowledge the revocation as valid, and this lawsuit was instituted against Craig and the unnamed adoptive…