ALFORD, Judge.
This is a motion by appellee, the State of Louisiana, to dismiss as moot an appeal from a trial court proceeding which terminated the parental rights of the appellant-mother to her two-year-old daughter. The mother was killed in an automobile accident on February 22, 1985, after the appeal had been timely lodged with this court.
An action normally does not abate on the death of a party. The only exception to this rule is an action to enforce...
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