[Download] "Matter Adoption Stephen Anthony Lockmondy" by Court of Appeals of Indiana No. 3-874A139 * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Matter Adoption Stephen Anthony Lockmondy
- Author : Court of Appeals of Indiana No. 3-874A139
- Release Date : January 24, 1976
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 69 KB
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Dean R. Jester filed a petition to adopt twelve-year-old Stephen Anthony Lockmondy on September 20, 1973. He had been married to Stephen's natural mother, Frances Jester, for about nine years prior to filing the petition. She gave her consent to the adoption, but Stephen's natural father, Joseph T. Lockmondy, refused his consent. Later, October 11, 1973, Frances, Jester died from injuries received in an automobile-train collision. On January 28, 1974, the trial court granted the adoption without Lockmondy's consent.[Footnote 1] After overruling Lockmondy's motion to correct errors, the trial court amended its decree: