In re Daigle

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Family Court of East Baton Rouge Parish, declaring that the natural father of minor children had abandoned his said children, and permitting adoption proceedings to proceed without the consent of the natural father.

Sidney P. Daigle petitioned for the adoption of Dorothy Yvonne Shiver and William Ernest Shiver, the minor children of Mr. Daigle’s wife, Connie Yvonne Hawkins Shiver Daigle, born of her previous marriage to William Roy Shiver. The petition alleges that William Roy Shiver had failed and refused to support his two minor children from January…