R.W.S. v. C.B.D.

THOMPSON, Presiding Judge.

*989On August 11, 2016, C.B.D. ("the stepfather") filed in the St. Clair Probate Court ("the probate court") a petition under the Alabama Adoption Code ("the AAC"), § 26-10A-1 et seq., Ala. Code 1975. In that petition, the stepfather sought to adopt a child born in April 2015 to his wife, A.L.D. ("the mother"), and, in support of that petition, he submitted, among other things, a consent to the adoption executed by the mother that expressed her desire that the stepfather adopt the child. Also in that petition, the stepfather identified R.W.S. as the putative father of…