D.K.H. v. J.L.H.

OPALA, Justice.

The issues for disposition on certiorari are: [1] Is Oklahoma a constitutionally sanctioned forum state for the exercise of judicial cognizance to declare minor children — bona fide residents of this state — eligible for adoption by their domiciliary father and stepmother without the consent of the noncustodial natural mother, a nonresident who claims to have had no minimum contacts with Oklahoma? and [2] Does the record, when measured by the fundamental law’s clear-and-convincing-evidence test, establish the children’s eligibility for a con-sentless adoption grounded on the…