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AINSWORTH v. NATURAL FATHER

No. 53167.

414 So.2d 417 (1982)

In the Matter of the Adoption of a Minor Child: John Harold AINSWORTH and Elizabeth Anne Ainsworth v. NATURAL FATHER.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

May 26, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas T. Buchanan, Billie J. Graham, Laurel, for appellants.

McKenzie & Pickering, Franklin C. McKenzie, Jr., Laurel, for appellee.

EN BANC.

DARDEN, Justice, for the Court:

This is an adoption case that comes to us from the Chancery Court of Jones County. John and Elizabeth Anne Ainsworth filed a petition for Ainsworth to adopt M.D., Anne's son of a former marriage. Anne's former husband, M.D.'s father, is here called Roe,1 and he objects to the adoption.

The questions presented are whether Roe deserted or abandoned the infant M.D. within the meaning of Mississippi...

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