Adoption of R. A. B. v. R. A. B.

RENDLEN, Judge.

Transferred from the Springfield district of the Missouri Court of Appeals after opinion, this case is decided as though on original appeal. Mo.Const., Art. V, § 10. The natural father, R. A. B., Jr., appeals from the adoption decree terminating the parental rights to his three children, ages nine, eight and six at the time of trial, and awarding them by adoption to his divorced wife (the natural mother) and her present husband, petitioners in this action. We reverse.

Consent of a natural parent is required for adoption of children under twenty-one years of age, § 453.030(3),…