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  "name": "Bonnie Sue PIERCE v. Bobby Joe PIERCE et al",
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      "Bonnie Sue PIERCE v. Bobby Joe PIERCE et al"
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    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Richard B. Adkisson, Chief Justice.\nThe Saline County Probate Court refused to allow appellant, Bonnie Sue Pierce, to revoke her consent to the adoption of her child by appellees, Bobby Joe Pierce and Phyllis Kay Pierce. On appeal we affirm.\nThe facts are not in dispute. The child was born on September 8, 1978. On May 11, 1981, appellant signed a \u201cconsent to adoption and relinquishment of parent and child relationship\u201d and on that same day appellees, who are the brother and sister-in-law of appellant, took custody of the child. On June 19, 1981, the probate court approved appellees\u2019 petition to adopt and entered an interlocutory order to that effect. On September 17,1981, appellant filed a motion to revoke her consent, alleging that the adoption was not final under Ark. Stat. Ann. \u00a7 56-213 (Supp. 1981) because the child had not lived in the adoptive home for six months. On January 22, 1982, the probate court denied appellant\u2019s attempted revocation of consent to adoption.\nWe considered the question of whether a natural mother can withdraw her consent to the adoption of her child after an interlocutory decree had been entered but before a final decree has been entered in the recent case of McCluskey v. Kerlen, 278 Ark. 338, 645 S.W.2d 948 (1983). Under McCluskey, it is settled that consent to adoption can be withdrawn after an interlocutory order only upon a proper showing of fraud, duress, or intimidation. Here the only reason appellant gave in her motion for wanting to revoke her consent was that the adoption was not final. Appellant neither pled nor proffered any evidence of fraud, duress, or intimidation at the hearing. Under these circumstances the probate court did not err in denying appellant\u2019s motion to revoke her consent.\nAffirmed.",
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        "author": "Richard B. Adkisson, Chief Justice."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Richard W. Byrd, for appellant.",
      "Phillip H. Shirron, for appellees."
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    "head_matter": "Bonnie Sue PIERCE v. Bobby Joe PIERCE et al\n83-24\n648 S.W.2d 487\nSupreme Court of Arkansas\nOpinion delivered April 11, 1983\nRichard W. Byrd, for appellant.\nPhillip H. Shirron, for appellees."
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