MATTER OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO SUEANN A.M.

No. 92-0885.

176 Wis.2d 673 (1993)

500 N.W.2d 649

IN the MATTER OF TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO SUEANN A.M.: ANN M.M., Petitioner-Respondent-Petitioner, v. ROB S., Respondent-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided June 8, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the petitioner-respondent-petitioner there were briefs by Scott D. Metz and Krause, Metz & Snyder, Appleton and oral argument by Scott D. Metz.

For the respondent-appellant there was a brief and oral argument by Donald T. Lang, assistant state public defender.


STEINMETZ, J.

There are three issues presented in this case. First, whether sec. 48.42(2m), Stats.,1 denies a father standing to appear and contest a petition to involuntarily terminate his parental rights under sec. 48.415 when his daughter was conceived as a result of the father's sexual assault of the mother, who was a child under the age of 16 at the time, contrary to sec. 948.02(2). We conclude that sec. 48.42(2m) denies such standing...

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