IN RE SHAVOR

No. 82 CA 0718.

428 So.2d 952 (1983)

In re David SHAVOR Applying for the Adoption of Desi Ray Pierre Zeringue, Jr.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Writ Denied April 15, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. Smith Knobloch of Knobloch & Knobloch, Thibodaux, for David M. Shavor, appellee.

John T. Bourgeois of Bourgeois & Bourgeois, Thibodaux, for Desi Ray Pierre Zeringue, natural father of child, appellant.

Before PONDER, SAVOIE and CRAIN, JJ.


PONDER, Judge.

The legitimate father of a child under the age of seventeen appealed the final decree of adoption of his child.

The issues on appeal are the best interest of the child and the presence of coercion or fraud in the father's consent.

We affirm.

This case is before us a second time, after the previous adoption decree was reversed and the case remanded for the reception of evidence on appellant's objections to the adoption and on...

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