In the Interest of Young

COLE, Judge.

The issue in this appeal is whether or not private individuals may invoke the remedy provided by law (La.R.S. 9:403) to have a child declared abandoned.

A petition to have a child, Jeffery Rene Young, declared abandoned by his mother, Sandra Causey Gaines, was filed by Paulette and Michael Young, the child’s aunt and uncle, and Jeffery Young, his natural father. The child’s mother filed the peremptory exception raising the objection of no right of action, challenging petitioners’ interest or capacity to institute an abandonment proceeding pursuant to La.R.S. 9:403. The trial court…