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LUCAS v. LUCAS

No. 53589.

415 So.2d 709 (1982)

Phillip LUCAS v. Madrid Phillip LUCAS, by Next Friend, et al.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied June 30, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Abston, Meridian, for appellant.

Laurel G. Weir, Philadelphia, for appellee.

Before SUGG, P.J., and ROY NOBLE LEE and DAN M. LEE, JJ.

DAN M. LEE, Justice, for the Court:

This is an appeal from the Chancery Court of Lauderdale County wherein Billy Wayne Jenkins, appellee, was attempting to adopt Madrid Phillip Lucas, a ten-year-old male child, who is the natural son of Rita Carol (Lucas) Jenkins. Rita Carol Jenkins was awarded custody of the child by a 1975 Alabama divorce decree. Phillip Lucas, appellant, the child's natural father, posed an objection to the adoption, denying he had abandoned the...

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