Thompson v. King

GIERKE, Justice.

This is an appeal from that portion of a judgment of the District Court of Grand Forks County terminating the parental rights of Frank L. King, in and to one minor child. The judgment was issued in conjunction with an adoption proceeding initiated by the child’s adoptive father, Dwight W. Thompson. The basis for that portion of the judgment which terminated parental rights was that Frank L. King had abandoned his child and that the inability of King to perform parental duties would result in harm to the child. King asserts that the termination of his parental rights was…