In the Matter of Adoption of Robin

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• setting aside an adoption on petition of a biological father whose consent was required for the issuance of an adoption and who was deprived of due process by the adoptive parents' fraud on the court and finding that birth mother's consent was obtained by fraud and duress
• \Adoption statutes are to be strictly construed in favor of the natural parents where the controversy is between the natural parents and persons seeking to destroy that status.\
• \It is fundamental that notice and parental consent are jurisdictional prerequisites to the adoption of a legitimate child. ... [and] [a]n adoption granted without parental consent is void ....\ (citations omitted)

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