IN RE ADOPTION OF J----

No. 8472.

396 S.W.2d 257 (1965)

In the Matter of the ADOPTION OF J____.

Springfield Court of Appeals. Missouri.

November 4, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles D. Tudor, Joplin, for Mother appellant.

James E. Brown, Joplin, for petitioners-respondents.


RUARK, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree of adoption. The subject is a girl child, twelve years of age at time the decree was rendered. The successful petitioners were the natural and legal father of the child and his present wife, the stepmother. The appellant is the mother of the child. The principal question is whether the consent of the mother was not required because the mother had "for a period of at least one year immediately prior to...

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