IN RE ADOPTION OF D.R.

No. 112183. Released for Publication by Order of the Court of Civil Appeals of Oklahoma, Division No. 1.

328 P.3d 691 (2014)

2014 OK CIV APP 60

In the Matter of ADOPTION OF D.R. and J.R., minor children: Li Shueh Nirschl and Robert Charles Nirschl, Petitioners/Appellees, v. Melissa Ray and David Ray, Respondents/Appellants.

Court of Civil Appeals of Oklahoma, Division No. 1.

May 9, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cindy Allen , Julia Mills , Cindy Allen & Associates, PLLC, Norman, Oklahoma, for Petitioners/Appellees.

Betsy Ann Brown , Law Office of Indian Hills, Norman, Oklahoma, for Respondents/Appellants.

Lisa R. Howard , Norman, Oklahoma, for the minor children.


KENNETH L. BUETTNER, Judge.

¶ 1 Respondents/Appellants Melissa Ray and David Ray (collectively, Natural Parents) appeal from the Final Decree of Adoption. Natural Parents argue the trial court erred by refusing to allow evidence that Natural Mother made in-kind payments of support during the fourteen (14) months immediately preceding the filing of the Petition for Adoption and by failing to appoint a guardian ad litem. We hold the trial court did not abuse its...

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