Kelley v. Licensed Foster Parents

WRIGHT, Presiding Judge.

This case comes before us on the denial of a Rule 60(b) motion from the Family Court of Jefferson County.

The record reveals the following:

A baby girl was born to Deborah Ann Kelley and Matthew Alan Shuttleworth on January 1, 1980. The mother and father were not at that time, nor have they ever been, married. Shuttleworth has never denied being the child’s father and, in fact, freely admits his paternity. Both mother and father are twenty-one years old.

Having been made aware in November 1979 that her pregnancy had progressed too far to obtain an abortion, the mother…