Ex Parte Blackstock

COLLINGS, Justice.

This is a proceeding to adopt the minor child Mark Layne Blackstock. Steven Le-Roy Culpepper and wife, Loma Arwilta Culpepper, filed their petition to adopt the child in the District Court of Nolan County. The petition set forth the name, race, age, residence and address of each of the petitioners, the name to be given the child of adoption, the child’s sex, race, birth date, birth place and the date upon which the child was placed in the home of petitioners. The petition further alleged that when the child was seven months of age a judgment was entered in the Court of…