MATTER OF TERRY

No. 726PA85.

343 S.E.2d 923 (1986)

In the Matter of Michael Lee TERRY, Sr., and La Verne Crabtree Terry, for the Adoption of Maggie Lynn Terry.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 3, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gail T. Donovan and William J. Riley, Durham, for petitioner-appellant.

Arthur Vann, Durham, for respondents-appellees.


BILLINGS, Justice.

The sole question presented is whether the natural mother of Maggie Lynn Terry timely revoked her consent to adoption of the child, thereby withdrawing from the Clerk of Superior Court the authority to enter the Final Order of Adoption on 15 November 1983.

On 13 July 1983, Sandra Kay Kinder Summerall executed a form consenting to the adoption of her daughter, Maggie Lynn Terry, by the petitioners...

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