In Re Adoption of Shaw

Clement Shaw and Yana Shaw, husband and wife, filed a petition in the Probate Court of Brown County for adoption of Betty Lou Dyer, whose first name appeared at that time to he Dixie Lee Dyer, according to the certificate of birth contained in the record. The petition was brought under and by virtue of Section 10512-11, General Code (effective January 1, 1948, 121 Ohio Laws, 448).

The petition, after setting forth the other allegations necessary under the above section, alleged in respect to each of the parents of the child sought to be adopted that such parent has “wilfully failed to properly…