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EDWARDS v. DEMING

No. 8331.

350 So.2d 920 (1977)

Norman Curtis EDWARDS applying for Adoption of Matthew Glenn Merle Deming v. Larry M. DEMING.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

September 8, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carville & Edrington, Jules A. Carville, III, La Place, for plaintiff-appellee.

G. Walton Caire, Edgard and Jack T. Whorton, Alamogordo, N.M., for defendant-appellant.

Before LEMMON, GULOTTA and BEER, JJ.

LEMMON, Judge.

This adoption proceeding was filed pursuant to R.S. 9:422.1 by Nolan Edwards, the present husband of the child's legitimate mother. Larry Deming, the child's legitimate father, has appealed from the judgment granting the adoption. The issue is whether Deming's consent to the adoption is necessary under the circumstances of this case.

When Deming and the child's mother (now Mrs. Edwards) were divorced in Florida in February, 1971, the judgment...

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