Arkansas Adoption Court Cases

Arkansas Court Case: In re Tyler Davis Tompkins
The appellants, Anthony and Elizabeth Johnson, are the paternal grandparents of Tyler Davis Johnson, who is the child of appellee Melissa Tompkins and appellants' deceased son, Jeffrey Johnson. Melissa Johnson, now Tompkins, and Jeffrey Johnson were divorced shortly after Tyler's birth, and Melissa Johnson retained custody of Tyler. She then married Kenneth Tompkins in 1992.


Arkansas Court Case: Irvan v. Kizer
PATERNITY-WRIT OF PROHIBITION-REVOCATION OF CONSENT Pamela Lynn IRVAN v. Honorable Bernice L. KIZER, Probate Judge No. ...


Arkansas Court Case: McKinney v. Ivey
Burrow & Harlan, for appellant. Gardner & Steinsiek, by: Charles J. Gardner, for appellees. George Rose Smith, Justice. Purtle, J., not participating. The Revised Uniform Adoption Act provides that upon the expiration of one year after an adoption decree is issued, the decree cannot be questioned by any person upon any ground, including fraud, misrepresentation, failure to give any required notice, or lack of jurisdiction of the parties.


Arkansas Court Case: In re Glover
The appellants' son consented to his daughter's adoption, but Mary Crenshaw, Nicole's mother and the appellee, refused to grant her consent. Appellants attempted to dispense with the mother's consent requirement through exceptions provided in Ark. Stat. Ann. § 56-207 (Supp. 1985).


Arkansas Court Case: Bruce v. Dillahunty
This is a habeas corpus case brought by a minor, through her parents as next friends, to cause the appellees, an attorney and unknown other persons, to produce her baby girl. The chancellor denied the writ on the basis that the minor appellant, Cheryl Bruce, had executed a lawful consent to the adoption of the child.


Arkansas Court Case: In re Pollock
In this appeal, this court is presented its first opportunity to interpret Arkansas's Revised Uniform Adoption Act [Ark. Stat. Ann. § § 56-201 -- 221 (Supp. 1985)] to determine whether, under that Act, this state's probate courts are empowered to grant an adoption when neither the adopting parents nor the child sought to be adopted are residents of this state.


Arkansas Court Case: In re Adoption Reeves
This is an appeal of the probate court's denial of Tom Watson's petition to set aside the adoption of minor, Andrew Reeves, by Todd Reeves. Andrew's mother, Lynne Watson, and Tom Watson were married for two years, and had one child, Dustin. The Watsons divorced in 1985, but during a reconciliation attempt, Lynn became pregnant. Andrew was born, but the couple had never remarried.


Arkansas Court Case: Goldsmith v. Arkansas Department of Human Services
This appeal is from an order of the probate court finding that the appellants, Margaret and Lee Goldsmith, were unfit to have their children, Samantha and William Goldsmith, returned to their custody and that it was in the best interests of the children that parental rights be terminated.


Arkansas Court Case: Arkansas Department of Human Services v. Farris
The Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS) appeals from the White County Chancery Court's (Juvenile Division) finding that it did not have personal jurisdiction over the appellee, Henry Calvin Miller, for purposes of terminating Mr. Miller's parental rights. We disagree with the chancellor and reverse. In 1984, Mary Miller, the mother of the children involved in this lawsuit, was killed by her husband, Henry Calvin Miller, in Mississippi.


Arkansas Court Case: In re Adoption of Parsons
This is an adoption case, in which the Probate Judge of the Pulaski County Probate Court, Fifth Division, denied both a motion to set aside the interlocutory order of adoption and a petition for writ of habeas corpus filed by the appellant, Deborha Parsons, natural mother of the child subject to adoption.


Arkansas Court Case: IN RE ADOPTION OF K.F.H.
This case involves the adoption of two children, K.F.H. and K.F.H., without the consent of their natural mother the appellant. The probate judge granted the adoption and terminated the parental rights of the appellant. The appellant raises three points on appeal. The points raised are without merit, and we affirm the judgment of the probate judge. There are two appellees, the natural father and his wife, the adoptive mother.


Arkansas Court Case: SUSTER v. ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES
The issue before us is the effect of a court ordered termination of the parental rights of a mother to her child in relation to the rights of the child's maternal grandmother to visitation and custody of the child. We hold that the grandmother's rights are derivative of her daughter's rights, and for this reason the grandmother has no standing to intervene in the adoption proceedings of her granddaughter.

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