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IN RE FAUST

No. 14442.

408 So.2d 384 (1981)

In re Betty Jeanie FAUST.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

December 22, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth L. Ross, Hammond, for Betty Fay Grear Pierson Gainey and William Eugene Gainey.

Tom Foley and Brian D. Leonard, Southeast Louisiana Legal Services Corp., Hammond, for Monel Faust.

Before ELLIS, LOTTINGER and PONDER, JJ.

ELLIS, Judge:

This is an adoption petition, in which Betty Fay Grear Pierson Gainey and her husband, William Eugene Gainey, are seeking to adopt Betty Jeanie Faust, Mrs. Gainey's illegitimate daughter. The father of the child is named on her birth certificate as Monel Faust. After the petition was filed, Mr. Faust appeared through counsel and opposed the adoption, refusing to give his consent thereto.

At the hearing, Mrs. Gainey testified that the child was...

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