Goldfuss v. Goldfuss

REED, Justice.

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The Kenton Circuit Court entered a judgment approving the adoption of an infant by a married couple with whom he had been placed by a licensed child care agency, after his natural mother had voluntarily terminated her parental rights. The child’s natural father executed a “notarized” and “witnessed” consent to the child’s adoption. The father’s parental rights were not terminated. He was neither made a party in the mother’s voluntary termination proceeding nor was he made a party in the subsequent adoption proceeding. His parental rights simply have not been terminated in…