In re the Adoption of W

OPINION

WILKINS, Judge:

Nakiatova Royal- challenges the trial court’s ruling which terminated his claim to parental rights to Baby Boy W and granted the adoptive parents’ petition to adopt Baby Boy W. We affirm.

BACKGROUND

On January 11, 1994, Baby Boy W was born in Las Vegas, Nevada, to an unmarried woman from Indiana, and was immediately placed in the control of an adoption agency. Mr. Royal, who claims to be the child’s biological father, is also from Indiana. On January 12, 1994, Mr. Royal commenced an action to establish his paternity of Baby Boy W in Indiana. Later that same day, a petition…