PRESCOTT, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.
In February of 1964, Lee Roy Coup, Jr., filed a petition in the Circuit Court for Cecil County seeking to adopt his stepson, John E. Logan II. His wife, the child's natural mother, joined in the petition. The petition alleged that the child's father, John E. Logan, had orally consented to the adoption, and had abandoned his parental rights by failure to support, visit or inquire
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