IN INTEREST OF J.D.

No. 57760.

512 So.2d 684 (1987)

In the Interest of J.D.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

September 2, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerome L. Lohrmann, Jackson, for appellant.

Keith Starrett, Magnolia, for appellee.

Before WALKER, C.J., and SULLIVAN and GRIFFIN, JJ.


GRIFFIN, Justice, for the court:

This case, involving an adoption, comes to the Court from the Chancery Court of Pike County, which dismissed the petition for adoption. We affirm.

In December 1980, when J.D. was four months of age, her father K.D. and her mother D.D. divorced. Thereafter, in February 1983, D.D., having custody of J.D., married W.B.W.B. now seeks to adopt the child.

At trial, D.D.B. testified that K.D. called every three to six weeks...

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