State Ex Rel. Hsd in Matter of Kira M.

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• holding that “the legislature has limited the grounds for revocation to fraud” and that an alternative basis for revocation can arise “under [the trial court’s] reservoir of equitable power to protect the interests of natural parents in exceptional cases”
• explaining that the legislature has created a two-step process by which the first step protects parents’ rights
• observing that the trial judge who took birth mother’s relinquishment “took great pains to ensure that the relinquishment was her own freely-made decision” after an “extended inquiry”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).