IN RE ADOPTION OF C.S.

Nos. 19062-CW, 19121-CA.

505 So.2d 1010 (1987)

In re ADOPTION OF C.S. and S.S.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

Writ Denied June 19, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Baker, Jonesboro, for petitioner-appellee-respondent.

Arthur Gilmore, Jr., Monroe, for defendant-appellant-relator.

Culpepper, Teat, Caldwell & Avery by James D. Caldwell, Shreveport, for absentee defendant.

Before HALL, C.J., and MARVIN and FRED W. JONES, Jr., JJ.


HALL, Chief Judge.

The primary issue presented by the DHHR's writ application and appeal in this adoption proceeding is whether the Second Judicial District Court for Jackson Parish, sitting as a juvenile court, lacked jurisdiction or authority to grant temporary custody of the two minor children to petitioner, their grandfather, prior to the entry of an interlocutory decree of adoption. The children had previously been placed in the custody of DHHR by a judgment...

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