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IN RE ADOPTION OF S.A.L.

No. 20020027.

652 N.W.2d 912 (2002)

2002 ND 178

In the Matter of the ADOPTION OF S.A.L., a Minor Child. K.E.L., Petitioner and Appellee v. S.S.M., a minor child, C.L., his mother, Carol K. Olson, Executive Director of the North Dakota Department of Human Services, Respondents, D.B.M., his putative father, Respondent and Appellant.

Supreme Court of North Dakota.

November 5, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary E. Nordsven, Hardy, Maus & Nordsven, P.C., Dickinson, for petitioner and appellee.

Eugene F. Buresh, Dickinson, for respondent and appellant.

SANDSTROM, Justice.

[¶ 1] D.B.M. appeals from a Southwest Judicial District Court judgment terminating his parental rights to S.A.L., formerly known as S.S.M., concluding he abandoned his child, the child was deprived, and it was in the best interest of the child to grant a petition for adoption by S.A.L.'s stepfather, K.E.L. We affirm, concluding the district court properly denied D.B.M.'s last-minute request for court-appointed counsel, and the evidence supports...

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