Matter of Petition of Gaus

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• holding that section 259.49 was not unconstitutional where statute “requires only that parents complete a minimal step to protect their parental rights”
• no substantial compliance where affidavit allegedly prepared within filing period without steps taken to confirm delivery and no excuse for not complying with statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).