W.VA. DEPT. OF HUMAN SERV. v. LA REA ANN C.L.

No. 16645.

332 S.E.2d 632 (1985)

WEST VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES v. LA REA ANN C.L.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

July 10, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary Beth Kershner, Asst. Atty. Gen., Charleston, for appellant.

Cooper & Martin, George M. Cooper, Sutton, for appellee.

Benjamin Snyder, Clendenin, for intervenors.


McHUGH, Justice:

The appellant, the West Virginia Department of Human Services, appeals from the final order of the trial court, which denied the appellant's petition to approve the appellee's relinquishment of parental rights. The trial court held that, although the minor parent had not been coerced by anyone into signing the relinquishment, she had been "under considerable pressure as a result of the circumstances in which she then found herself," at the time of...

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