A.J.F. v. North Dakota Department of Human Services

Tufte, Justice.

[¶ 1] A.F. appeals a district court order denying his petition to adopt J.L.F. The district court denied his petition after finding the child’s biological father neither consented to the adoption nor abandoned his child. We affirm, concluding the district court’s findings of fact are not clearly erroneous.

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[¶ 2] J.L.F. was born in 2012. The child’s father and mother never married, and their relationship ended in 2014. In 2015, a district court awarded the mother primary residential responsibility for the child and imposed on the father supervised parenting time. In 2016, the…