Spires v. Bittick

Pope, Judge.

Appellee filed a petition to adopt his stepson after his wife, the child’s natural mother and custodial parent, died. The petition alleged that appellant, the child’s natural father, abandoned the child as evidenced by his intentional lack of contact with and failure to make court-ordered support payments for the child. The trial court denied appellant’s motion to dismiss and granted the adoption.

1. The first of appellant’s two enumerations of error is-that the trial court should not have denied his motion to dismiss for improper jurisdiction and venue. This contention has no…