IN MATTER OF PETITION OF J.A.A.

No. 80CA0355.

618 P.2d 742 (1980)

In the Matter of the Petition of J.A.A., Appellant, For the Adoption of a Child, C.M.R., v. C.R., Appellee.

Colorado Court of Appeals, Div. I.

September 11, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian Maguire, Denver, for appellant.

John M. Case, P.C., John M. Case, Littleton, for appellee.


COYTE, Judge.

Stepfather appeals the trial court's denial of his petition for adoption of his stepchild. We affirm.

After hearing on the petition, the trial court found that even though the natural father lived in the same area as the child, he had failed to contact the child for a period of three years and had failed to pay child support, that the natural father had abandoned the child and that his parental rights were subject to termination, that the child...

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