IN RE ADOPTION OF H.G.C.

No. 20080096.

761 N.W.2d 565 (2009)

2009 ND 19

In the Matter of the ADOPTION OF H.G.C. B.A.C., Petitioner and Appellee, v. N.W.P., Respondent and Appellant, and Carol Olson, as Executive Director of the North Dakota Department of Human Services, Respondent.

Supreme Court of North Dakota.

February 3, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leslie Johnson Aldrich, Johnson Law Office P.C., Fargo, N.D., for petitioner and appellee.

Mark T. Blumer, Valley City, N.D. 58072, for respondent and appellant.


SANDSTROM, Justice.

[¶ 1] N.P. appeals from a district court order terminating his parental rights to H.G.C., a minor child he has with A.C. We conclude the district court's findings of abandonment under N.D.C.C. § 14-15-19(3)(a) are not clearly erroneous, and we affirm.

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[¶ 2] In October 2007, B.C. petitioned to terminate N.P.'s parental rights and for a step-parent adoption of H.G.C. According to testimony at the hearing, H.G.C...

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