Eggert v. Van De Weghe

Rogosheske, Justice.

This appeal raises the question of whether the evidence of parental conduct of a father who is deprived of custody subsequent to a divorce and a modification of the decree relieving him of all support and forbidding him from visiting or contacting his minor son is sufficient to justify a termination of his parental rights, thereby terminating his statutory right to refuse to consent to an adoption by his son’s stepfather. We hold that the evidence does not establish parental unfitness essential to a termination of such rights, and the adoption granted to the stepfather by…