State ex rel. Little Boy

GULOTTA, Judge.

The Louisiana Department of Health and Human Resources, appeals from the trial court’s judgment: 1) dismissing the Department’s affidavit seeking to have a minor child declared abandoned by his natural mother, and 2) ordering that the November, 1982, judgment of the Court of Appeal, transferring the care of the child from the foster parents to the natural parents, be made the judgment of the court. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

In December, 1976, the two month old boy, a natural child, was placed in the protective custody of the State. Shortly thereafter, he was placed…