Lucas v. Lucas

DAN M. LEE, Justice,

for the Court:

This is an appeal from the Chancery Court of Lauderdale County wherein Billy Wayne Jenkins, appellee, was attempting to adopt Madrid Phillip Lucas, a ten-year-old male child, who is the natural son of Rita Carol (Lucas) Jenkins. Rita Carol Jenkins was awarded custody of the child by a 1975 Alabama divorce decree. Phillip Lucas, appellant, the child’s natural father, posed an objection to the adoption, denying he had abandoned the child.

Appellees subsequently amended the petition for adoption asking for a judgment against Phillip Lucas for child support…