Walker County Department of Pensions & Security v. Mason

WRIGHT, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from an order by the Walker County Circuit Court, Juvenile Divi*864sion, awarding permanent custody of Lisa Marie Hill to Howard and Betty Joan Mason and continuing a petition by the Masons to adopt her. We affirm.

The record discloses that the child, Lisa Marie Hill, was born on April 27, 1975 to John and Charlene Hill. On August 7, 1975, a Walker County Circuit Court judge issued an emergency order giving temporary custody of the child to the Walker County Department of Pensions and Security (DPS) because of the apparent abandonment of the child by its…