Termination of Parental Rights, Abandonment, Intent to Abandon

The Nebraska Court of Appeals finds that the juvenile court erred in terminating parental rights of the child’s father because, in the Court’s de novo review, they ruled the father had no intention of abandoning the child. The dissent warns that the slippery slope established here where a married man would be able to abandon a child of the marriage “based upon the physical features of a child that are substantially different from his own physical features.”
In re Interest of Chance J., 17 Neb. App. 645 (2009)
Filed June 2, 2009. No. A-08-962.