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IN RE D.W.H.

No. 16435-CAJ.

457 So.2d 137 (1984)

In re D.W.H., Applying for Adoption.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

September 26, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Eugene Osburn, Monroe, for defendant-appellant.

Blackwell, Chambliss, Hobbs & Henry by Sam O. Henry, III, West Monroe, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before PRICE, HALL and NORRIS, JJ.

HALL, Judge.

This appeal involves a stepparent adoption proceeding in which a father challenges the district court's granting of the adoption of his nine-year-old son by the stepfather. Issues on appeal arise out of two findings of the court. The court found that the necessity of the father's consent to the adoption was vitiated under LSA-R.S. 9:422.1 by his failure to comply with a court order of support for a period of one year. The court further found that the...

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