Adoption of Thevenin

This is an appeal from an order approving a stepparent adoption. Phyllis Thevenin filed a petition to adopt her husband’s four minor children by his former marriage to the appellant, Frankie Shields. The petition alleges that Phyllis and Albert J. Thevenin, the father of the children, were married on June 1, 1957, and that since that time, the children had been in their custody and care; that formerly, Albert was married to the appellant and obtained a final decree of divorce from her on April 5, 1957; that by this decree, the custody of the children was awarded to their father, the appellant…