In Re Adoption of JP

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• concluding the parent’s consent to the adoption was not required
• construing subsection (b) of I.C. § 31-19-9-8, which obviates the need for parental consent in the event that a parent abandoned a child or provided only token communication for the requisite time period
• noting potential adoptive parent presented evidence that the Department of Welfare Division of Family and Children case manager and the CASA did not believe parent’s “fairly consistent, but brief” monthly visits to her child were “meaningful”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).