State in Interest of MAV v. Vargas

OPINION

ORME, Judge:

The parental rights of Balbino Vargas, the natural father of M.A.V., were terminated by the First District Juvenile Court for Box Elder County on grounds that the father was “unfit or incompetent by reason of conduct or condition which is seriously detrimental to the child.” Utah Code Ann. § 78-3a-48(l)(a) (1986). Vargas seeks reversal of the judgment or a new trial.

The child is a citizen of the United States, having been born April 27, 1979, in Arizona. He was born to appellant Balbino Vargas, a Mexican national and illegal alien, and a mother whose nationality, identity,…