Legal Opinion
In Re JP
Utah Supreme Court
Decided June 9, 1982No. 17386Published
1Opinion of the Court
648 P.2d 1364 (1982)
In re J.P.
No. 17386.
Supreme Court of Utah.
June 9, 1982.
David L. Wilkinson, Atty. Gen., Sharon Peacock, Asst. Atty. Gen., Salt Lake City, for appellant.
Steven Kuhnhausen, Salt Lake City, for respondent.
OAKS, Justice:
In the Children's Rights Act, ch. 40, 1980 Utah Laws 288, amending U.C.A., 1953, § 78-3a-48(1), the Utah Legislature repealed the statutory provision allowing a court to "decree a termination of all parental rights" to a child on a finding that a parent is "unfit or incompetent by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…
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