In re M.M.L.

HALL, Judge.

This is an appeal from the denial of a stepparent adoption. Although the juvenile court found that the consent of the child’s legal father to the adoption by the stepfather was not necessary because of the father’s failure to support the child, the court further found that the minor child’s best interest would not be served by granting the adoption. In a case presenting a close question on the propriety of refusing an adoption, we affirm the judgment of the juvenile court.

The child, adopted during infancy, was approximately four and one-half years old at the time his adoptive…