In Re Baby Girl Eason

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• holding that unwed fathers possessed an “opportunity interest” to develop a relationship with their children, which began at conception and could be lost if the father did nothing to further it
• holding that unwed fathers possessed an \opportunity interest\ to develop a relationship with their children, which began at conception and could be lost if the father did nothing to further it
• adopting fitness standard to determine right of unwed father to legitimate child whom mother placed for adoption
• adopting fitness standard to determine right of unwed father to legitimate child whom mother placed for adoption
• adopting a fitness standard to evaluate unwed father’s right to legitimate his biological child when he has not abandoned his “opportunity to develop a relationship”
• concluding, based on a review of several prior legitimation cases, that \unwed fathers gain from their biological connection with a child an opportunity interest to develop a relationship with their children which is constitutionally protected\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).