Woods v. Collins

WATSON, Judge.

This is an appeal by Dorothy Woods from a judgment denying her petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus and granting Loretta Bruce Collins a period of six months within which to petition for a final decree of adoption. Dorothy Woods, now wife of Jimmy LeMaire, is the natural mother of the child, Crystal Ann Vincent, whose adoption and custody is in dispute. The child was born June IS, 1962, and is now 10 years old.

A chronology of pertinent events is necessary to an understanding of the issues presented by the appeal. The mother, plaintiff here, left her husband, Julius Vincent, and…