In Re the Welfare of D.D.G.

OPINION

PARKER, Judge.

Appellant Avery Hobbs is the adjudicated father of D.D.G. Respondent Dakota County Social Services filed a petition for involuntary termination of parental rights of Hobbs and D.D.G.’s mother. Hobbs appeared at the termination trial, but D.D.G.’s mother did not. The parental rights of D.D.G.’s mother were terminated by default.

On the second day of trial, Hobbs consented on the record to termination of his parental rights. He filed a direct appeal to this court from the resulting June 5, 1995, order terminating parental rights based on his consent (CO-95-1458). A special…