In re Adoption of Williams

STOULIG, Judge.

Appellants, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Paul Nolting, have appealed a judgment of the Orleans Parish Juvenile Court denying their application to adopt their grandson, Joe Brian Williams. The judge rejected their petition because he concluded the natural mother, Cynthia Nolting Williams, petitioners’ daughter, neve/ gave an informed consent to her son’s adoption.

On April 23, 1974, appellants filed the first pleading required to apply for adopt*812ing a child under 17 years of age, in which they sought an interlocutory decree granting them custody of the child and an order to set in motion…