Ray v. Denton

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting contention that adoption decree was facially deficient, where the decree contained specific findings of fact relating to the contested element
• claim that failure to pay support was result of medical illness was unavailing where the first illness allegedly occurred in the same month petition for adoption was filed
• “It is not necessary to remand this case in order for the court to use the exact language provided in the statute where the pertinent findings and conclusions have been made.”
• the trial court correctly granted the adoption petition when the biological father failed to pay any child support after he was released from prison, even though he was employed, and, therefore, such failure was without justifiable cause
• even incarceration is a factor in determining justifiable cause

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).