Court Opinion

ID: 9620407
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 05:41:57.622771+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:04:50.280068
License: Public Domain

SUMMERS, Justice,
concurring in part, dissenting in part with whom OPALA, C.J., and KAUGER, J. join.
I believe Sections 29.1 and 60.6 must be applied together to adopt without consent and terminate parental rights in cases such as this. Absence of the requirement for consent must first be shown under the latter statute before the former may then be used to sever parental rights. The father, having been afforded no opportunity to exercise parental rights, should not have *648been held accountable for his failure to exercise them. 10 O.S.1981 § 60.6 3.b.2.