In Re Baby Duncan

[¶ 1] The father appeals from a judgment entered in the Penobscot County Probate Court (Woodcock, J.) denying his petition to establish parental rights over Baby Duncan, a child he fathered and who is the subject of a petition for adoption. In order to prevent the adoption of the child, to which the mother consents, the father, whose paternity had not been legally established, is required pursuant to 18-A M.R.S. § 9-201(i) (2008) to establish that he is the child’s biological father, demonstrate his willingness and ability to parent the child, and show that establishing his parental rights is…