Richey v. Cothran

Smith, Judge.

This case is here on appeal from the denial of a petition for adoption of the 4-year-old child of the appellee whose divorced wife and mother of the child had subsequently been married to the petitioner, appellant. The father, appellee, refused to give his consent to the adoption. The mother gave her consent. The case hinges upon whether the trial judge was authorized to find that the father did not wántonly and wilfully fail to comply with the order of the judge of the superior court, for a period of 12 months or longer, requiring the father to support the child. See Ga. L.…