IN RE ADOPTION OF FOUTS

No. 4560.

254 So.2d 649 (1971)

In the Matter of ADOPTION of Craig Alan FOUTS.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied December 6, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank E. Beeson, III, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellant.

Billy Lee Fouts, pro se.

Before LEMMON, GULOTTA and BOUTALL, JJ.


LEMMON, Judge.

Allen Howard Pettigrew appealed from a judgment denying his petition to adopt his six year old stepson, Craig Alan Fouts, without the consent of the legitimate father under the provisions of LSA-R.S. 9:422.1.1

Pettigrew's wife was previously married to Billy Lee Fouts, a resident of Texas, and the child had been adopted by them during that marriage. A curator was appointed to represent Fouts, who upon notice of Pettigrew...

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