MATTER OF ADOPTION OF C.M.G.

No. 57718.

656 P.2d 262 (1982)

In the Matter of the ADOPTION OF C.M.G., a minor child. Rebecca Sue BAILEY, formerly Rebecca Sue Gniech, Appellant, v. Stephen Eugene GNIECH and Pamela Jean Gniech, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

December 21, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randle L. Graham, Sr., Oklahoma City, for appellant.

Thomas D. McCormick, Oklahoma City, for appellees.


OPALA, Justice:

The dispositive issue for review is whether, under the provisions of 10 O.S.Supp. 1974 § 60.6(3), the mother's consent to the adoption was correctly declared to be unnecessary. We answer in the negative. The child's statutory eligibility status for adoption without its mother's consent depends here upon [1] whether the mother's failure to provide support in the discharge of her unadjudicated financial...

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