Court Opinion

ID: 9635406
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 13:49:59.434416+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T10:28:56.869040
License: Public Domain

WIEAND, Judge,
dissenting:
I respectfully dissent. The evidence in this case reveals the unhappy aftermath of a marital breakup, but it does not establish clearly and convincingly that the appellant-father intended to relinquish parental claim to his children or that he refused to perform his parental duties. See: In re Adoption of James P., 332 Pa.Super. 486, 492, 481 A.2d 892, 895 (1984); In re Adoption of Faith M., 329 Pa.Super. 304, 309, 478 A.2d 480, 482 (1984). If, at times, he failed to perform fully his parental duties, his failure must be examined in light of his financial circumstances and the roadblocks put in his way by appellee. The totality of these circumstances, in my judgment, does not support an order terminating appellant’s parental rights. Therefore, I would reverse.