QUILLIAN, Presiding Judge.
This appeal was from a judgment denying a petition for adoption of a minor child. The principal issue was whether the natural father by failing to make child support payments had abandoned the child so that the father's consent to the adoption was not necessary.
The trial judge made the following findings of fact: "The petition for adoption was filed in the Superior Court of Jackson County on June 14, 1977. Defensive pleadings with...
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