Court Opinion

ID: 9739765
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 20:20:33.73315+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:24:13.735779
License: Public Domain

HARTEN, Judge
(concurring specially).
I concur with the application of law and result in this case. I do not, however, join the court’s opinion insofar as it narrows good cause for voluntary termination of parental rights to cases where, as the court says, “termination is accomplished to facilitate adoption of the child.” This narrowing functionally amends Minn.Stat. § 260.-221, subd. 1(a) and involves policy considerations more appropriately weighed by the legislature. Accordingly, our decision is more properly confined to the facts in the case before us.