MATTER OF ADOPTION OF A.M.B.

Civ. No. 930269.

514 N.W.2d 670 (1994)

In the Matter of the ADOPTION OF A.M.B., A Minor Child. R.A.K., Petitioner and Appellee, v. M.E.Z., Respondent and Appellant, and Henry C. Wessman as Executive Director of the North Dakota Department of Human Services, Respondent.

Supreme Court of North Dakota.

March 30, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard J. Linnerooth, Fargo, for petitioner and appellee.

Erik R. Johnson, Solberg, Stewart, Miller & Johnson, Fargo, for respondent and appellant.

Appearance by M.E.Z.


VANDE WALLE, Chief Justice.

Mike (a pseudonym), the natural father to A.M.B., appealed a district court's final decree of adoption of A.M.B. by A.M.B.'s stepfather, Ronald (a pseudonym), upon a finding that Mike's consent to the adoption was not required. We affirm.

Mike and Kim (a pseudonym) had a sexual relationship from October 1989 to July 1990, during which time A.M.B. was conceived. Both resided in the Minneapolis, Minnesota, metropolitan area. Mike...

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