Kenneth B. v. Tina B.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding a court could find abandonment despite an absent parent's subjective intent not to abandon a child
• concluding a court could find abandonment despite an absent parent's subjective intent not to abandon a child
• noting evidence of regular visitation, gifts, clothes, cards, and food would factor into whether mother provided reasonable support
• directing the juvenile court to “consider each of the stated factors — whether a parent has provided ‘reasonable support,’ ‘maintained regular contact with the child’ and provided ‘normal supervision’”
• If a parent makes “only minimal efforts to support and communicate with the child,” such minimal conduct can support finding the parent has abandoned the child.
• appellate court reviews issues of law de novo

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).