In re Ledet

HAMLIN, Justice.

On August 5, 1965, Elwood Joseph Ledet filed suit in the district court, praying for a final decree of adoption which would declare Harold Louis Monceaux and ^Dwayne Joseph Monceaux, children of his wife, Carolyn Spights, by a former marriage previously existing between her and Ray Gene Monceaux, to be his children to the same extent as if they had been born of his marriage to their mother. He further prayed that the children’s surname be changed to “Ledet”. Plaintiff alleged in his petition that notwithstanding an order of court, the children’s father had made no payment for…