Jordan v. Department of Public Welfare

YELVERTON, Judge.

The single issue here is whether the trial court abused its discretion in refusing to permit the adoption of a three year old child by his stepfather.

The appellant is James Jordan. He married the child’s mother, Selma, on January 4, 1982. Selma was at that time 30 years old and this was her fifth marriage. The child sought to be adopted, Michael David McCullough, was born of the fourth marriage. He was two years and seven months old when his mother married appellant. They had been married one year when this petition for adoption was heard.

Selma gave her consent to the…