Owens v. Griggs

Deen, Presiding Judge.

Randall Keith Owens and Lelia Teresa Owens appeal from an order of the Superior Court of Polk County dismissing their petition seeking to permit Mr. Owens to adopt his wife’s son by a previous marriage to defendant.

At the hearing on the petition, plaintiff placed defendant on the stand for purposes of cross examination. He testified that the parties were divorced on December 5, 1974, and he had not supported the child during 1975 and 1976, but began making regular payments to the Child Support Recovery Unit in January 1977 after being contacted by agents of the unit. The…