Mobley v. Estate of Parker

How courts have described this case

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• holding, in a case in which the old Code applied, a biological father who failed to legitimate his child lacked standing to challenge the termination of his parental rights
• explaining that appellate courts “do not weigh the evidence or determine the credibility of witnesses; rather, we defer to the juvenile court’s factfinding and affirm unless the appellate standard is not met”
• juvenile court did not abuse discretion in finding that termination of parental rights was in deprived child’s best interest where parent was unable to provide for child’s special needs
• father who fails to legitimate lacks standing to challenge termination

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).