MATTER OF ADOPTION OF E.S.P.

No. 51191.

584 P.2d 209 (1978)

In the Matter of the ADOPTION OF E. S. P. and C. L. P. GLEN EDWARD V. and Cynthia J. V., Respondents, v. EDWARD P., Jr., Petitioner.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied September 29, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lackey & Wendel, Eufaula, for respondents.

Gotcher, Gotcher & Gotcher, McAlester, for petitioner.


BERRY, Justice:

Husband and wife petitioned to adopt wife's children by her previous marriage to children's natural father. As part of the adoption proceedings, husband and wife asked trial court to declare the children eligible for adoption without consent of the natural father. Their reason was that natural father had willfully failed to support the children for 12 months next preceding filing of petition for adoption....

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