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MATTER OF ADOPTION OF R.M.P.C.

No. 56955.

512 So.2d 702 (1987)

In the MATTER OF the ADOPTION OF R.M.P.C., a Minor Child.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied September 30, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nova Carroll, Ray M. Stewart, J. Edmand Pace, Stewart, Burks, Pace & Carroll, Picayune, for appellant.

Richard C. Fitzpatrick, David R. Smith, Smith, Smith, Tate & Cruthird, Poplarville, for appellee.

Before HAWKINS, P.J., and ROBERTSON and ANDERSON, JJ.

ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I.

Today we are concerned that the labyrinthian course of proceedings below not obscure that this case is about the adoption and support of a now thirteen-year-old female child. The child's mother is now living in Louisiana. The child's admitted natural father defends by attacking a two year old decree under which he adopted his own child. In the end we hold that the Chancery...

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