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IN RE ADOPTION OF S.D.W.

No. 348PA13.

758 S.E.2d 374 (2014)

In re ADOPTION OF S.D.W.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 12, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thurman, Wilson, Boutwell & Galvin, P.A., Charlotte, by W. David Thurman , John D. Boutwell , and Alexander W. Warner , for petitioner-appellants adoptive parents and appellant Christian Adoption Services, Inc.

Jonathan McGirt for respondent-appellee father Gregory Johns.

Claiborne & Fox, PLLC, Charlotte, by Amy Wallas Fox ; and Herring & Mills, PLLC, Raleigh, by Bobby Mills , for American Academy of Adoption Attorneys, amicus curiae.

EDMUNDS, Justice.

The issue presented in this case concerns the legal ability of a biological father who is unaware that he has fathered a child to object to the mother's decision to place the child for adoption. Appellee Gregory Johns ("Johns") contends that his state and federal due process rights were violated because the adoption deprived him of his rights as a father. We conclude that obtaining notice of the pregnancy and birth was not beyond Johns's control...

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