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SONET v. UNKNOWN FATHER OF J.D.H. (SONET)

797 S.W.2d 1 (1990)

Harry Israel SONET and wife, Mary Elisabeth Prim Sonet, Appellants, v. UNKNOWN FATHER OF JOSEPH DANIEL HASTY (SONET), Respondent, and State of Tennessee, Department of Human Services, Intervenor-Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Tennessee, Middle Section.

Permission to Appeal Denied September 24, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary Anne Kevil, Nashville, for appellants.

Charles W. Burson, Atty. Gen. & Reporter, Dianne Stamey, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jane Crisp, Dept. of Human Services, Nashville, for appellee.

Permission to Appeal Denied by Supreme Court September 24, 1990.

OPINION

CANTRELL, Judge.

The appellant, Mary Elisabeth Sonet, appeals the trial court's dismissal of her petition to adopt Joseph Daniel Hasty, and the trial judge's finding that the adoption was not in the child's best interest.

Joseph Daniel Hasty was born on November 20, 1987 to an unmarried teen-aged daughter of a workman who did odd jobs for Mr. and Mrs. Sonet. The natural...

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