In Re Adoption of S.D.W.

EDMUNDS, Justice.

The issue presented in this case concerns the legal ability of a biological father who is unaware that he has fathered a child to object to the mother’s decision to place the child for adoption. Appellee Gregory Johns (“Johns”) contends that his state and federal due process rights were violated because the adoption deprived him of his rights as a father. We conclude that obtaining notice of the pregnancy and birth was not beyond Johns’s control and that he had sufficient opportunity to acknowledge paternity and establish himself as a responsible parent within the time set by…