In re the Adoption of Infant McGee

Infant McGee’s prospective adoptive parents and birth mother appeal the trial court’s refusal to terminate the parental rights of the birth father. The trial court concluded the birth father was an unfit parent, but had not abandoned his parental duties. Because the court’s unchallenged findings amply establish the father’s unfitness to parent under the operative language of the statute, and there is no additional requirement to show abandonment or intent to abandon, we reverse and remand for orders permitting the adoption to go forward.

Infant McGee was born August, 1994, to unmarried…