In Re Application of Ashmore

Deen, Presiding Judge.

Ashmore appeals from the denial of his petition to legitimate his infant daughter.

1. Two of Ashmore’s enumerations of error contend that Friends of Children, Inc. (a private adoption agency licensed in Georgia) and John and Jane Doe (fictitious names of the adoptive parents) lack standing to file an objection to his petition because only the child’s mother can object to the petition and she has not filed an objection.

The evidence shows that the child’s mother surrendered her parental rights to the child to the adoption agency two days after its birth and the child was…