Womack for the Declaration of Abandonment

SWIFT, Judge.

Catherine Ann McGuire and her husband, Willie Allen McGuire, filed this action (with an affidavit by a supervisor of the Louisiana Department of Health and Human Resources, Offices of Human Development, attached) pursuant to LSA-R.S. 9:403 to have the minor child, Christina Lynn Wom-ack, declared abandoned and to obtain her custody. The natural parents of the child are Sharon Womack and Kenneth F. Wom-ack, Jr. The trial court found that Mr. and Mrs. Womack had abandoned their child and awarded her custody to Catherine and Allen McGuire. From this adverse judgment, Sharon Womack…