Kellum v. Cornes

PRESIDING JUSTICE WELCH

delivered the opinion of the court:

Respondent Ernest Cornes appeals an order of the circuit court of Williamson County terminating his parental rights after a finding that he was an unfit father and a depraved person. Petitioners Donnell Kellum and Marietta Faye Kellum filed this action on May 27, 1983, seeking to adopt M.B.C., then seven, and M.J.C., then five, her children from her earlier marriage to respondent. A subsequent “Bill of Particulars” alleged that respondent had committed “open and notorious adultery and fornication” by committing rape in October 1977. A…