In re Adoption of Meier

McBRIDE, Judge.

Arthur Edward McCord and wife filed a petition in the Juvenile Court for the Parish of Jefferson seeking an interlocutory decree awarding them the custody and, in due course, a final decree of adoption of Robin Spring Meier, the seven-year-old daughter of Rodney John Meier, issue of his marriage with Maxine Smith.

Although the McCords alleged that the child had been abandoned by the mother, it nowhere appears that the child had ever been legally surrendered or decreed abandoned by a court of competent jurisdiction in accordance with LSA-R.S. 9:402, 9:403. The McCords also…