MATTER OF ADOPTION OF SIEFNER

No. 53146.

627 P.2d 456 (1981)

In the Matter of the Adoption of Jessica SIEFNER, a minor child.

Court of Appeals of Oklahoma, Division No. 2.

Released for Publication April 16, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kade A. McClure, Lawton, Stan L. Foster, Oklahoma City, for appellant.

George R. Robinson, Jennings, Robinson & Jennings, Lawton, for appellees.


Released for Publication by Order of Court of Appeals April 16, 1981.

BRIGHTMIRE, Judge.

The dispositive question is whether the failure to comply with pre-decree statutory requirements1 is fatal to an adoption decree rendered below. We hold that it is and reverse the order denying the natural mother's motion to vacate it.

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Reduced to bare essentials, the operative facts are these. On June 14, 1978, 19-year-old...

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