ADOPTION OF VEST

No. 82-698.

427 So.2d 1359 (1983)

ADOPTION OF Brent Anthony VEST.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

February 24, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jacques, Rester & Townsend, Daniel K. Rester, Lake Charles, for plaintiff-appellant.

Lewis M. Gladney, Natchitoches, for defendants-appellees.

Before DOMENGEAUX, C.J., and FORET and DOUCET, JJ.


DOUCET, Judge.

Billy W. Benevage and Linda Thaxton Benevage petitioned to adopt Brent Anthony Vest, the child of John William Vest and Joan Nicholas Vest, a married couple. The trial court ruled that the act of surrender executed by the natural parents of this child was fatally deficient in that it failed to recite that the mother of the child was under the age of eighteen at the time of the signing of the act and therefore the parent or parents of the minor mother...

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