State, Department of Social Services v. L.O.

I, SAUNDERS, Judge.

Appellants, Lonnie Joseph O’Conner and Kay Frances Hamilton O’Conner, appeal a judgment of the trial court granting the appellee’s exception of prescription to the O’Conners’ Petition to Nullify Act of Surrender and dismissing said petition. The O’Conners assert that the trial court erred in granting the State’s exception of prescription.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

The minor child involved in these proceedings, J.O., was born on June 15, 1990. In December of 1997 J.O. was placed in the foster care of Lonnie Joseph O’Conner and Kay Francis Hamilton O’Conner. J.O. remained in…