IN RE STATE EX REL. B.T.

No. 20080931-CA.

214 P.3d 881 (2009)

2009 UT App 182

STATE of Utah, in the interest of B.T. and J.T., persons under eighteen years of age. M.T., Appellant, v. State of Utah, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Utah.

July 2, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Colleen K. Coebergh, Salt Lake City, for Appellant.

Mark L. Shurtleff, Atty. Gen., John M. Peterson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Salt Lake City, for Appellee.

Martha Pierce, Salt Lake City, Guardian Ad Litem.

Before Judges GREENWOOD, THORNE, and McHUGH.


OPINION

McHUGH, Judge:

¶ 1 M.T. (Father) appeals from the juvenile court's adjudication order finding that he neglected his children by failing to exercise proper parental care. See generally Utah Code Ann. § 78A-6-105(25)(a)(ii) (2008) (defining neglect to include failure to provide proper parental care). We reverse and remand.

BACKGROUND

¶ 2 Father is the single adoptive parent of two boys, J.T., born in 1995, and...

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