IN RE ADOPTION OF Z.N.F.

No. 26656.

841 N.W.2d 460 (2013)

2013 S.D. 97

In the Matter of the ADOPTION OF Z.N.F., a minor child.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Decided December 18, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael V. Wheeler of DeMersseman Jensen Tellinghuisen & Huffman, LLP, Rapid City, South Dakota, Attorneys for appellant father D.L.F.

Brian Utzman of Smoot & Utzman, PC, Rapid City, South Dakota Attorneys for appellee mother H.S.S. and adoptive father T.E.S.


SEVERSON, Justice.

[¶ 1.] D.L.F. (Father) appeals the judgment and order waiving Father's consent to step-parent adoption entered on February 14, 2013, and the order for adoption entered on March 15, 2013. We affirm.

Background

[¶ 2.] Father and H.S.S. (Mother) are the biological parents of minor child Z.N.F., who was born in 2002. Father and Mother were married in 2001 in Rapid City, South Dakota. After marrying, the couple moved to Oregon...

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