MATTER OF ADOPTION OF INFANT McGEE

No. 37476-1-I.

937 P.2d 622 (1997)

86 Wash.App. 471

In re the Matter of the ADOPTION OF INFANT McGEE, a person under the age of eighteen. Richard and Anne Hess (Prospective Adoptive Parents) Appellants, In re the PARENTAGE OF Infant McGEE, a person under the age of eighteen. Natural Mother: Toni McGee, Appellant. Alleged Father: Lane Morrison, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 1.

May 27, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linda Jean Nye, Ferndale, Catherine Wright Smith, Edwards, Sieh, Hathaway, Smith & Goodfriend, Seattle, for Appellants on appeal.

Debra Ann Lev, Bellingham, for Toni McGee on appeal.

Richard Charles Kimberly, Richard Mark Sybrandy, Bellingham, for Respondent on appeal.


BECKER, Judge.

Infant McGee's prospective adoptive parents and birth mother appeal the trial court's refusal to terminate the parental rights of the birth father. The trial court concluded the birth father was an unfit parent, but had not abandoned his parental duties. Because the court's unchallenged findings amply establish the father's unfitness to parent under the operative language of the statute, and there is no additional requirement to show abandonment or...

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