ADOPTION OF DORE

No. 84-462.

469 So.2d 491 (1985)

ADOPTION OF Brandon Scott DORE.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

May 15, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patricia Thomas, Abbeville, for defendant-appellant.

Paul G. Moresi, Jr., Abbeville, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before STOKER, LABORDE and KING, JJ.


KING, Judge.

The issue presented by this appeal is whether or not the trial court was correct in granting a final decree of adoption permitting a stepfather to adopt his stepson without the consent of the child's natural father.

The trial court found that the child's natural father had failed, without just cause, to visit, communicate, or attempt to communicate with his child for over two years and that because of this the natural father's consent to the adoption...

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