Legal Opinion
McIntyre v. Medaris
Indiana Court of Appeals
Decided April 22, 1993No. 18A05-9207-CV-253PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SHARPNACK, Chief Judge.
Marcus Melntyre, Father, appeals from a judgment against him approving the adoption of his daughter, M.D., by Gale and Helen Medaris. We reverse and remand with instructions.
Father raises several issues for our review, but we consider only the dispositive issue of whether a father, who has established paternity and who has not given his consent to adoption, must establish that it is in his child's best interests for the court to grant his motion to contest the adoption.
The procedural history and facts relevant to this appeal are as follows. On February 20, 1991, Mother…
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