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IN INTEREST OF SHUMAKER

No. 13092.

341 So.2d 583 (1977)

In the Interest of Zennie Donna Marie SHUMAKER. Dorothy Shumaker FITZGERALD, Respondent-Appellant, v. LOUISIANA HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES ADMINISTRATION, Petitioner-Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

January 10, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George E. Harp and Tommy K. Cryer, Shreveport, for respondent-appellant.

George F. McGowin, Baton Rouge, for petitioner-appellee.

Before BOLIN, MARVIN and JONES, JJ.

BOLIN, Judge.

Respondent appeals from an order of Caddo Parish Juvenile Court declaring her nine-year-old daughter an abandoned child within the meaning of Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:403(A).1 No reasons were assigned by the juvenile judge other than a statement in the preamble of the decree that "the best interest of the child supports an order of abandonment." We reverse.

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