Faulkner v. Johnson

The appeal is from a decree ordering adoption of appellant’s children by his divorced wife, (the children’s mother), and her present husband.

One of appellant’s points asserts that absent his written consent to adoption, in the absence of pleading and proof of his abandonment and desertion, or that the children were dependent and neglected, or that parental rights had been ordered terminated, adoption was not authorized under Sec. 6, Art. 46a, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St. The statute provides an additional exception to adoption without the written consent of the parents: “if such parent or parents…