In Re the Welfare of Hauser

The petitioners, Larrien Phillips and Albert Hauser, Jr., seek review of an order permanently depriving both petitioners of all parental rights in and to their child, Albert Jeffrey Lee Hauser. The petitioners challenge findings of the trial court, assert that the child was not dependent under RCW 13.04.010, and that the permanent deprivation order should be reversed. The petitioner Albert Hauser, Jr., asserts that he was denied consideration of his individual fitness as a parent because of his sex. We find that clear, cogent, and convincing evidence supports the findings entered, concur with…