State ex rel. Pierce

MORIAL, Judge.

A petition was filed by the State of Louisiana in the interest of Marcy Lynn Pierce, a minor, seeking to have the child declared abandoned pursuant to LSA-R.S. 9:403. After a hearing, the trial judge found the child to have been abandoned by her mother, Mrs. Jo Ann Carline Pierce, a/k/a Jo Ann Harden, and decreed that Marcy Lynn Pierce no longer subject to her parental authority. Plaintiff appeals from the judgment.

Marcy Lynn Pierce was born on January 11, 1972 during the marriage between Jo Ann Carline Pierce and Gary Pierce. The child’s parents were subsequently separated and…