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STATE IN INTEREST OF J.G.

No. CA-8447.

519 So.2d 195 (1987)

STATE In the Interest of J.G., Jr.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

December 30, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark S. Goldstein, Steven Scheckman, New Orleans, for appellant J.G., Jr.

Olden C. Toups, Jr., Singerman, Cosentino, and Toups, New Orleans, for appellee Biological Parents, B.G. and J.G., Sr.

Mary B. Widmann, David A. Dalia, New Orleans, for appellee State Dept. of Health and Human Resources.

Before GULOTTA, C.J., and WARD and WILLIAMS, JJ.

WARD, Judge.

This is a child custody case in which the only issue is whether the Trial Court abused its discretion when that Court followed the Department of Health and Human Resources recommendation on custody, awarding custody to the paternal grandparents with the ultimate goal of reunification of the child with his natural parents.

In March 1985 the Department of Health and Human Resources received J.G., Jr., a six week old baby, into its legal custody...

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