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DILLON v. STATE

No. 12976.

336 So.2d 1066 (1976)

William L. DILLON and Wilma Jean Dillon applying for Adoption of Rodger Dale Fontenot and Theresa Fontenot, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. STATE of Louisiana, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

August 31, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Baker, Culpepper & Brunson by William H. Baker, James E. Beal, Jonesboro, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Whitten & Blake by Leon Whitten, Dist. Atty., Second Judicial Dist., Jonesboro, for defendant-appellee.

Before HALL, MARVIN and JONES, JJ.

JONES, Judge.

The question in this appeal is whether parents have the burden to prove their fitness in order to reacquire the custody of children voluntarily surrendered to the State while the parents were in hardship circumstances.

The facts leading to this controversy began in 1973 when Mrs. Carol Dillon Fontenot, mother of the minors, Rodger, age two, and Theresa, age one, was pregnant with a third child. Both...

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