In Re J. Children

OAKS, Justice:

Appellant’s parental rights were terminated for abandonment. U.C.A., 1953, § 78-3a-48(l)(b). On appeal, she challenges only the sufficiency of evidence for that decision. 1

Abandonment can only result from inaction or a course of conduct for which the parent is personally responsible. 2 The leading definition of abandonment for purposes of termination of parental rights is the following from Summers Children v. Wulffenstein, Utah, 560 P.2d 331, 334 (1977):

Whether or not there has been an abandonment within the meaning of the statute is to be determined objectively, taking into…