Hamrick v. Seward

This controversy grows out of an adoption proceeding. The parents of a minor child were divorced, and child-support was awarded against the father. The mother married again, and her second husband filed proceedings to adopt the child, but did not obtain the written consent of the father, as is required in Code Ann. §74-403 (Ga. L. 1941, pp. 300, 301; 1950, pp. 289, 290; *141957, p. 367; 1960, pp. 791, 792; 1967, pp. 107, 108). In lieu of the father’s written consent, the petitioner relied on and alleged that the father had "wantonly and wilfully failed to comply” with the judgment for…