STATE IN INTEREST OF C.A.C.

No. 2011-CA-1315.

85 So.3d 142 (2012)

STATE of Louisiana in the Interest of the Minor Child C.A.C.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

February 1, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tammy Marie Thompson , Special Designated Appellate Counsel, Loranger, LA, for Appellant.

Sherry Watters , Department of Children and Family Services, T. Darlene Bewley , Southeast Louisiana Legal Services, New Orleans, LA, for Appellees.

(Court composed of Judge DENNIS R. BAGNERIS, SR., Judge TERRI F. LOVE, Judge ROSEMARY LEDET).


ROSEMARY LEDET, Judge.

This is an involuntary termination of parental rights case. From a judgment terminating the parental rights of the biological father, John C, of a female child, CAC, based on abandonment under La. Ch.C. art. 1015(4), the father appeals.1 For the reasons that follow, we reverse.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

On October 7, 2007, CAC was born. Her birth certificate designated John C as her...

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