Beatty v. Wilkerson

Smith, Judge.

Wilkerson filed a petition to adopt his wife’s son, who was fathered by the wife’s former husband, Beatty. The mother, Mrs. Wilkerson, consented to the adoption; the father, Beatty, did not. The adoption request was granted, notwithstanding Beatty’s refusal to consent, because the court found that Beatty had wantonly and wilfully failed, for a period of twelve months or longer immediately prior to the filing of the adoption petition, to comply with a court order for child support. Beatty appeals, but we affirm.

Appellant and Sue Ann Wilkerson were divorced on January 27,1975.…