Arizona Adoption Court Cases

Arizona Court Case: ADOPTION OF CHILDREN BY D.
In this contested adoption case, the County Court allowed plaintiff D to adopt two children, a girl aged seven and a boy aged six, born to his present wife and defendant U during their marriage, and to change their surnames to his. The Appellate Division affirmed the judgment, one judge dissenting.


Arizona Court Case: BECHTEL v. ROSE
This special action raises novel and complex questions with regard to grandparents' rights in the disposition of their parentless grandchildren. The particular issues that we must address are: did the juvenile court commit reversible error by denying the grandmother's motion to intervene in her grandchild's dependency hearing; and by denying the grandmother's petition for appointment as her grandchild's guardian and conservator? The factual background giving rise to this case is not in dispute.


Arizona Court Case: IN THE MATTER OF THE APPEAL IN MARICOPA COUNTY
The issue in this case is whether the trial court erred in severing the parental rights of an unwed father. The father had no contact with his daughter until almost four years after her birth, when he responded to the petition by the Arizona Department of Economic Security (DES) to terminate his rights based on abandonment.


Arizona Court Case: THE FATHER IN PIMA COUNTY JUVENILE ACTION v. KAREN ADAM
This case presents fundamental issues concerning grounds for severance of parental rights. The case comes to us on a petition for review filed by a guardian ad litem on behalf of a young child.


Arizona Court Case: J.D.S. and J.L.S. v. THE HONORABLE PAMELA J. FRANKS
This case involves a tug-of-war between a natural father in Arizona and a couple in Florida seeking to adopt his minor child. It also involves the consideration of three overlapping statutes. We accepted jurisdiction of this special action to decide whether the trial court erred when it declined jurisdiction in this child custody dispute and deferred to the Florida trial court.


Arizona Court Case: MICHAEL J. v. ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC SECURITY
In January 1997, the Arizona Department of Economic Security (the ADES) filed a severance action on behalf of Zachariah J. The superior court terminated the father's rights based on three grounds: (1) length of the father's felony sentence, (2) unfit parent, see Arizona Revised Statute Annotated (A.R.S.) § 8-533.B.4 (West 1999), and (3) abandonment, see A.R.S. § § 8-531.1 & 8-533.B.1 (West 1999).


Arizona Court Case: Appeal in PIMA COUNTY JUVENILE ACTION
On May 16, 1984, the Pima County Attorney filed a petition for preadoption certification on behalf of appellant in accordance with A.R.S. § § 8-105 and 8-127. The petition was appended to an adoptive home study ("written report"), appellant's application to adopt a child and appellant's autobiography, which together contained the information required by A.R.S. § 8-105(C).


Arizona Court Case: STATE of Arizona v. WILHITE
At the close of the state's evidence, defendant's attorney moved to modify the custodial interference charge from a class 3 felony to a class 6 felony, claiming that the defendant was J.E.'s "parent" within the meaning of A.R.S. § 13-1302(C) and was accordingly subject to conviction only at the lesser felony level. Counsel renewed this motion before sentencing.


Arizona Court Case: Appeal in PIMA COUNTY JUVENILE SEVERANCE ACTION
The mother became pregnant by an escaped convict while she was separated from her husband, although she reconciled with her husband before the child's birth. The husband made it clear, however, that he did not want the child and the mother contacted LDS Social Services (the agency) in October 1988, seeking information regarding adoptive services.


Arizona Court Case: Appeal in NAVAJO COUNTY JUVENILE ACTION
Davis & Martin by David J. Martin, Show Low, for appellant. Dale K. Patton, Jr., Winslow, for appellee. Fennemore Craig, P.C. by C. Webb Crockett, Phoenix, for intervenor LDS Social Services. Kleinschmidt, Judge. Ehrlich, J., concurs. Grant, Judge, dissenting. This is an appeal from the trial court's denial of a petition to set aside an order for the adoption of three children.


Arizona Court Case: ROURK v. The STATE of Arizona
Charles Anthony Shaw, Prescott, and S. Alan Cook, Phoenix, for plaintiff-appellant. Jones, Skelton & Hochuli by Don C. Stevens, II, Phoenix, Attorney for defendants-appellees. Kleinschmidt, Judge. Brooks, P.J., and Lankford, J., concur. The plaintiff, Rebel Lynn Rourk, was injured in an automobile accident when she was returning home from a teenage drinking party.


Arizona Court Case: In the Marriage of RAMIREZ, and Alarcon
Stephen D. Neely, Pima Co. Atty. by David A. Sands, Tucson, for petitioner/appellant. Fernandez, Judge. Druke, P.J., and Hathaway, J., concur. Ramirez appeals from the dismissal of her request to enforce child support, arguing that the trial court improperly determined sua sponte that she lacked standing to pursue her claim.

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