T.B. v. State
Court of Appeals of Utah
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ORME, Judge:
¶ 1 T.B. appeals from a juvenile court order terminating his parental rights to his daughter, D.B. He claims incarceration, alone, does not render him unfit as a parent. We affirm.
BACKGROUND
¶ 2 The relevant facts are not in dispute. The father has been incarcerated for most of his daughter, D.B.’s, life. In 1991, a few months before his daughter’s birth, the father was returned to prison for violating the terms of his parole from prison on a prior conviction for attempted robbery and aggravated assault. Then, beginning in 1995, the father served eighteen months in prison…
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