In Re the Termination of the Parental Rights of the Biological Parents of Baby Boy W.

¶ 1 This is an action by an adoption agency to terminate the parental rights of a child’s natural father. The child’s natural mother placed the child with the agency for adoption, relinquishing her parental rights. The adoption agency then placed the child with prospective adoptive parents.

¶ 2 The issue is whether the natural father was denied the chance to grasp his parental opportunity interest in his child through the actions of the child’s natural mother and the adoption agency. This Court holds that he was denied that chance in contravention of due process. Further, there was nothing…