Roe Family Services v. Doe

TROUT, Chief Justice.

I

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

This ease involves an appeal from a district court order reversing a decree of parental termination issued by a magistrate judge. The magistrate judge’s decree of termination terminated the natural father, John Doe’s (the Father), parental rights to Baby Boy Doe and granted custody to the proposed adoptive parents John and Jane Roe (the Roes). The Appellants in this case are Roe Family Services (RFS), Baby Boy Doe’s natural mother, Jane Doe (the Mother), and the Roes. The Father is the Respondent.

On December 7, 2001, the Mother informed…