State v. Foss

CIACCIO, Judge.

Defendant was charged in the Juvenile Court for the Parish of Orleans with criminal neglect of family, La.R.S. 14:74. He now appeals from a judgment ordering him to make semi-monthly child support payments. La.R.S. 14:75. Defendant has specified four assignments of error all of which concern the trial judge’s ruling which construed a certain document as an act of acknowledgement. We affirm the action of the trial court.

The document in question is entitled “Act of Legitimation”. It is signed by the defendant, the mother of the child, two witnesses and a notary. The document…