W.J.M. v. J.B.

NEUMANN, Justice.

J.B. (John)1 appeals from a judgment terminating his parental rights to J.W.M. (James) and granting a petition for adoption by James’s stepfather, W.J.M. (Walter). We hold John’s due process rights were not violated by the procedures employed in the adoption proceeding and, under our de novo review, the evidence presented at the adoption hearing clearly and convincingly establishes John abandoned James. We affirm.

James was born on July 29, 1988, to John and J.M. (Joan). John and Joan have never been married, but they lived together with James in the Minneapolis, Minnesota…