In re L.D.B.

HUDSON, Judge.

Respondent Mungo appeals the trial court's order terminating parental rights of minor child L.D.B. For the reasons set forth below, we reverse the decision of the trial court.

Minor child L.D.B. was born in August of 2001, at which time her mother surrendered parental rights and put her up for adoption. At that time, the mother refused to give the adoption agency the father's name. Within a couple of weeks, though, the mother named respondent Mungo as L.D.B.'s father, and he acknowledged that he could be the father. Respondent Mungo and petitioner, the adoption agency…