Birth Mother v. Adoptive Parents

OPINION1 Per Curiam:

This is an appeal from an adoption decree.2 The birth mother relinquished her parental rights to her child to New Hope Child and Family Agency (New Hope) for the purpose of adoption. New Hope and the birth mother ultimately selected the adoptive parents. The adoptive parents filed a petition for adoption with the district court. While the petition was pending, the birth mother filed an objection to the adoption, alleging that, due to a series of traumatic events that occurred around the child’s birth, she was incapable of giving knowing, voluntary, and intelligent consent…