Legal Opinion
Manzanares v. Byington
Utah Supreme Court
Decided January 27, 2012No. 20090740PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Justice LEE,
opinion of the Court:
T1 Robert Manzanares challenges the district court's order terminating his parental rights in his biological daughter, "Baby B." The district court held that Manzanares's consent to the adoption of Baby B. was not required under Utah law. It based this conclusion on a finding that Manzanares either knew or through "reasonable diligence" could have known of at least one of several "qualifying cireumstances" defined by Utah law.
1 2 We find the district court's conclusions to run counter to a proper understanding of the statute and to be unsupported by the…
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