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ADOPTION OF BABY DOE

No. 85-1232.

492 So.2d 508 (1986)

ADOPTION OF BABY DOE.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Rehearing Denied August 19, 1986.

Writ Denied November 7, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Beal, Natchitoches, for defendant-appellant.

Poteet and Landry, John G. Poteet, Jr., Lafayette, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before LABORDE, YELVERTON and FONTENOT, JJ.

H. WARD FONTENOT, Judge pro tem.

Baby Doe, an illegitimate, was born in Iberia General Hospital, Iberia Parish, on June 20, 1985. The unmarried mother of the child had agreed that she would surrender the child to the Catholic Social Services of the Diocese of Lafayette, Inc. for adoption. Before a formal surrender was accomplished, however, a notarial act of acknowledgement was recorded in Iberia Parish on July 3, 1985 by the respondent herein asserting that he was...

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