Legal Opinion

Matter of the Adoption of Z.N.F.

South Dakota Supreme Court

Decided December 18, 2013No. 26656PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SEVERSON, Justice.

[¶ 1.] D.L.F. (Father) appeals the judgment and order waiving Father’s consent to step-parent adoption entered on February 14, 2013, and the order for adoption entered on March 15, 2013. We affirm.

Background

[¶ 2.] Father and H.S.S. (Mother) are the biological parents of minor child Z.N.F., who was born in 2002. Father and Mother were married in 2001 in Rapid City, South Dakota. After marrying, the couple moved to Oregon. In November 2006, while residing in Oregon, Mother and Father separated.

[¶ 3.] On the evening of February 21, 2007, Mother awoke to a fire consuming her…

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