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MATTER OF ADOPTION OF BABY CHILD

No. 8190.

700 P.2d 198 (1985)

102 N.M. 735

In the Matter of the ADOPTION OF a BABY CHILD, a minor, Alfred PINO, Pueblo of Laguna, Intervenors-Appellants, v. NATURAL MOTHER, prospective adoptive parents, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of New Mexico.

April 30, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony F. Little, Indian Pueblo Legal Services, Bernalillo, for intervenor-appellant Alfred Pino.

Alan R. Taradash, Nordhaus, Haltom, Taylor & Taradash, Albuquerque, for intervenor-appellant Pueblo of Laguna.

Jane G. Printz, Paskind, Lynch & Printz, P.A., Albuquerque, for appellees prospective adoptive parents.

George F. Stevens, Albuquerque, for appellee natural mother.

OPINION

HENDLEY, Judge.

Intervenors, Alfred Pino (father) and the Pueblo of Laguna (Pueblo), appeal the children's court's failure to grant their motion to reopen the court's judgment and order (1) determining that father had waived his consent to the baby's adoption, and (2) decreeing that the prospective parents may adopt the child. Finding that the trial court lacked jurisdiction, we reverse.

On May 13, 1983, prospective parents petitioned the...

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