Legal Opinion
Matter of Adoption of BSL
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided September 15, 1989No. S-2431PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Before MATTHEWS, C.J., and RABINO WITZ, BURKE, COMPTON and MOORE, JJ. COMPTON, Justice.
This appeal arises from an adoption proceeding. The trial court found that the natural mother had for three years failed significantly without justifiable cause to communicate meaningfully with the child. Accordingly the court concluded that the mother’s consent to adoption was not required. See 25.23.050(a).1 The court entered the decree of adoption, terminating the mother’s parental rights. We affirm.
I. FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS.
In January 1979 Irma Addison, then 16 years old, ran away from her home in…
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