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IN RE ADOPTION OF JSB

No. 18489-CAJ.

505 So.2d 796 (1987)

In re ADOPTION OF JSB.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 30, 1987.

Writ Denied July 1, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Plummer, Means & Burgess by Robert E. Burgess, Mansfield, for plaintiff-appellee.

D. Scott Brown, Mansfield, for defendant-appellant.

Before JASPER E. JONES, NORRIS and LINDSAY, JJ.

JASPER E. JONES, Judge.

This is a stepparent adoption proceeding. The petitioner seeks to adopt his wife's child by a prior marriage. The child's biological father, who failed to pay court ordered child support for more than one year, opposed the adoption contending it was not to the best interest of the child. The trial court found the adoption would be to the best interest of the child and granted it. The biological father...

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