In the Interest of D. M.

Phipps, Judge.

The putative biological father of D. M. and D. M. appeals the juvenile court order terminating his parental rights.1 Because the father’s failure to file a petition to legitimate the children within 30 days of receiving notice of the proceedings to terminate his parental rights justified the court’s decision to terminate all such rights, we affirm.

D. M. and D. M., twin boys born in 1995, were removed from the custody of their mother on April 8, 1997, when she tested positive for cocaine and marijuana use at the birth of another son. At the time, the father was twenty-three years…