In Re Adoption of BGS

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• tasking a district court with determining whether a biological father had “lost, waived or otherwise had his constitutional rights terminated.”
• explaining that the ability of a mother of an illegitimate child to refuse to place the father’s name of the birth certificate amounts to “the power to deprive the unwed father of his natural parental right to custody”
• explaining that the ability of a mother of an illegitimate child to refuse to place the father’s name of the birth certificate amounts to “the power to deprive the unwed father of his natural parental right to custody”
• father of newborn child must “demonstrate that he is fit and committed to the responsibilities of parenthood” and “show that he has taken concrete actions to grasp his opportunity to be a father”
• “[W]e believe that the 17 interest of a biological parent in having an opportunity to establish a relationship with his child is one of those liberties of which no person may be deprived without due process of law under our state constitution.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).