IN RE V.A.H.

No. 07-CA-472.

972 So.2d 479 (2007)

In re V.A.H.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 28, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Margaret E. Woodward, Attorney at Law, New Orleans, LA, for Defendant/Appellant.

Edith H. Morris, Bernadette R. Lee, Suzanne Ecuyer Bayle, Attorneys at Law, New Orleans, LA, Betsy Fischer, Attorney at Law, Metairie, LA, for Plaintiff/Appellee.

Panel composed of Judges EDWARD A. DUFRESNE, JR., SUSAN M. CHEHARDY, and FREDERICKA HOMBERG WICKER.


FREDERICKA HOMBERG WICKER, Judge.

This is an appeal by the biological father of V.A.H. from a stepfather adoption granted by the juvenile court based on a petition for intra-family adoption filed by the child's biological mother and her present husband. For reasons that follow, we affirm.

The record shows that V.A.H. was born in November, 2001 in Alabama to S.H. (mother) and C.H. (father). The couple were divorced on April 25, 2003. At the time of the Alabama...

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