K.D.F. v. J.L.H.

DICKINSON, Justice,

for the Court.

¶ 1. This is an adoption case which involves a chancellor’s refusal to terminate the parental rights of a natural father on the grounds of abandonment or moral/mental unfitness and the subsequent denial of the Appellants’ adoption petition. A second matter concerns the chancellor’s award of temporary custody of the child to the natural father. The question presented is whether the chancellor committed manifest error in finding the Appellants failed to present clear and convincing evidence of the natural father’s unfitness to maintain his parental rights.

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