Wendy "B" v. Ronald "B"

This is an appeal in a proceeding to require appellant to show cause why an order should not be granted dispensing with his consent to the adoption of minor children. Born of the marriage of appellant and petitioner’s present wife, Wendy was only about nine months old, and Heidi was not yet born when the parties separated in December, 1964. Thereafter, appellant obtained a proper judgment of divorce from his wife upon grounds of incompatibility in Mexico in 1966, and on July 15, 1967 appellant’s former wife married petitioner, in whose household she has lived with the children since that…