Martin v. Martin

Tom Glaze, Justice.

In this adoption case, Rachael, the natural mother, and the adoptive parents, Rachael’s brother and sister-in-law, appeared with an attorney before the probate judge on December 10, 1991, to present a petition for adoption. The judge, however, refused to approve the petition and enter an interlocutory decree because Rachael had executed her consent to adoption only that day (December 10th). By law, Ark. Code Ann. § 9-9-209(b)(l) (Repl. 1993), Rachael had ten days within which she could withdraw her consent, and no order of adoption could be entered prior to the withdrawal…