Odd S.-G. v. Carolyn S.-G.

*369WILLIAM A. BABLITCH, J.

Odd S.-G. (Odd) filed a petition for the involuntary termination of his daughter Carolyn S.-G.'s (Cally) parental rights to her child, Kyle S.-G., Odd's grandchild. Cally seeks review of a decision of the court of appeals which held that in an action for the involuntary termination of parental rights, once abandonment, as that term is used in the statutes, has been established, the burden of proof shifts to the opposing parent to prove by clear and convincing evidence that the parent has not disassociated himself or herself from the child or relinquished responsibility…