In re J.R.C.

|,SOL GOTHARD, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Juvenile Court, Parish of Jefferson, granting an intra-family adoption. For reasons that follow, we affirm.

On July 9, 2002, J.C. Ill filed a petition for intra-family adoption of five-year-old C.S.K. In the petition it is alleged that J.C. Ill is the step-father of C.S.K., and is currently married to C.S.K.’s mother, A.C. On July 17, 2002, C.N., the alleged biological father, filed an Exception of Lis Pen-dens and Lack of Joinder, alleging that the adoption petition was filed in response to a petition C.N. filed in Orleans Parish…