In re Omar I.

Syllabus

The respondent father, whose parental rights to his three minor children previously had been terminated, appealed to this court from the judg- ment of the trial court denying his motion to open and set aside the adoptions of the children, claiming that he had not received timely and proper notice of the court's prior ruling regarding his amended petition for a new trial. Held that, although the trial court properly determined that the respondent father lacked standing to challenge the adoption decrees, that court having correctly determined that, because notice of its ruling regarding his amended petition for a new trial had been sent timely and properly, the father's parental rights had been adjudicated fully and fairly prior to its issuance of the decrees, the court should have dismissed the father's motion rather than denied it on its merits. Argued May 25—officially released July 20, 2022