Matter of Andersen

I dissent from the majority’s analysis and disposition of both the procedural issue concerning the respondents’ collateral attack of the adoption decree and the substantive issue concerning the respondents’ attempt to revoke the consent to adoption. Inasmuch as the latter issue is of much greater significance, not only to these parties but also to parents and children in general, I address that issue first.

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Although the majority characterizes the natural mother as being “extremely distraught, concerned and upset” when she executed the consent and delivered the child, it is important to bear…