Hucks v. Dolan

Harwell, Justice:

This is a cross-appeal from an order granting the natural father’s petition to adopt his illegitimate son, and an order assessing the $905 guardian ad litem fee against the natural father.

James Wayne Hucks (father) was separated from his wife, and Donna Shelley Dolan (mother) was divorced when the child was born out of wedlock on April 19, 1978. The South Carolina Department of Social Services subsequently brought a paternity action on the mother’s behalf. After the father’s paternity was established by a court order dated February 16,1982, the father provided the required…