S.K.R. v. Department of Children & Family Services & Gift of Life Adoptions, Inc.

FULMER, Judge.

S.K.R., the legal father of S.M.A.L., challenges an order terminating his parental rights to his child, S.M.A.L. Because the trial court erred in holding that the Legal Father had no standing to contest the termination, we reverse.

It appears to be undisputed that the Legal Father was married to K.R., the mother of S.M.A.L., at the time of the child’s birth on January 15, 2002, although another man, C.L., is the child’s putative biological father (hereinafter “biological father”).1 The record indicates that S.M.A.L. and a sibling, who was the Legal Father’s biological child, were…