In Re the Adoption of T. G. K.

On July 17, 1979, appellant filed a petition for the adoption of his stepchildren, TGK, age 10, and JPK, age 9. Upon filing the petition appellant also filed an affidavit of his wife, the children’s natural mother, attesting to her marriage to the appellant in October 1974 and consenting to the adoption.

Written consent to the adoption was not obtained from the natural father, respondent herein, but appellant alleged in his petition that it was not necessary by reason of the fact that the father had failed to “provide for the support of the children for the period of one year last past before…