Court Opinion

ID: 9736700
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 19:02:58.243221+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:27:08.146811
License: Public Domain

Boslaugh, J.,
dissenting in part.
I dissent from that part of the opinion of the court which holds that Neb. Rev. Stat. § 43-105 (Reissue 1978) requires the appointment of a guardian to give a substitute consent in this case.
A substitute consent by a guardian is required only where consent is not required of both parents, if living, the surviving parent, or the mother of a child born out of wedlock. The statute describes a class of cases in which no parental consent is required.
Since the mother of the child is required to consent to the adoption in this case, it is not a case where consent is not required of both parents. The majority opinion construes the statute as if it read “one or both parents.”
Clinton, J., joins in this dissent.