MATTER OF DELANEY

No. 52061.

617 P.2d 886 (1980)

In the Matter of Julia Kathleen DELANEY, Charles Delaney, Terrie Delaney, Rebecca Delaney, Susan Delaney and Mechell Delaney. Scharlene GAFFORD, Appellant, v. STATE of Oklahoma, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

As Corrected October 8, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sullivan, Steely & Ellis by Ellen Colclasure Steely, Duncan, for appellant.

Melvin R. Singleterry, Duncan, Stan McKay, Marietta, for appellee.


OPALA, Justice:

The question to be answered is whether the trial court erred when it refused to vacate as void its prior order by which the children of a legally incompetent mother were found to be "deprived" and her maternal rights came to be terminated. We hold that while the deprived-status adjudication of the order was impervious to the mother's attack on grounds of facial invalidity-launched two and a half years after...

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