IN RE HINTON

No. 14322.

390 So.2d 972 (1980)

In re HINTON, Applying for Adoption.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

October 28, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard R. Storms, Ruston, for appellant.

Truett West, Farmerville, for appellee.

Before PRICE, HALL and JASPER E. JONES, JJ.


HALL, Judge.

In this stepparent adoption proceeding, the stepfather appeals from a judgment of the district court, sitting as a juvenile court, denying his petition to adopt his wife's two children of her previous marriage to the children's father, who opposed the adoption. The court found that, although the father's consent to the adoption was not necessary because the father had failed to comply with a court order of support for one year, it was in the best interest...

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