Pyborn v. Quathamer

OPINION

In this appeal, Willard B. Pyborn contends the district court abused its discretion in granting respondent Sheryl Quatha-mer’s petition to terminate Pyborn’s parental rights to the parties’ minor child, Adam Jason Pyborn. We disagree.

A hearing on the petition was held in February 1979. In its findings of fact, the district court stated, among other things, that Pyborn and Quathamer were divorced in 1975 and Quathamer was awarded custody of their child; that in May 1977, while exercising his visitation rights, Pyborn absconded to Tennessee with the child and kept him there until March…