Legal Opinion
In re J. P.
Utah Supreme Court
Decided June 9, 1982No. 17386PublishedCited by 114 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OAKS, Justice:
In the Children’s Rights Act, ch. 40, 1980 Utah Laws 288, amending U.C.A., 1953, § 78-3a-48(l), the Utah Legislature repealed the statutory provision allowing a court to “decree a termination of all parental rights” to a child on a finding that a parent is “unfit or incompetent by reason of conduct or condition seriously detrimental to the child,” and substituted a provision permitting “involuntary termination” upon a finding that “such termination will be in *1366the child’s best interest.” The sole question in this appeal is whether this new provision is constitutional under the…
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