Wyoming Adoption Court Cases

Wyoming Court Case: Adoption of R.H.A.
A petition to adopt RHA was filed in the district court on January 6, 1984, the petitioners being allowed to file under the names of John and Jane Doe. The petitioners alleged that the statutory reasons for nonconsent of the parent had been met, pursuant to § 1-22-110, W.S.1977. The district court ruled that the trial should be bifurcated, so that the question of whether the consent of PAA was required would be heard separately from the...


Wyoming Court Case: Adoption of B.G.D.
Those who organized the letter writing campaign misconceived the judicial process. A judge cannot properly be influenced by public opinion or pressure. I wish to assure the public that the letters did not have any influence whatsoever on the court's decision to grant a rehearing. It would be totally improper for the court to succumb to pressure or be influenced by public opinion. Those interested in this case must understand that the...


Wyoming Court Case: Adoption of G.S.D.
Although appellant never wanted TG to have the baby and suggested on abortion three months into TG's pregnancy, he visited the hospital immediately after his son's birth. He brought some baby toys and clothes as a gift but never offered to pay the expenses of the difficult cesarean birth. He refused to acknowledge his parenthood by signing the birth certificate at the hospital and never tried to establish paternity through any other legal process...


Wyoming Court Case: T.R. v. County
The foremost issue in this sad case is whether the record encompasses sufficient evidence to justify the termination of a young mother's parental rights with respect to her three daughters. The mother also contends that the trial court erred in failing to invoke a less intrusive or restrictive alternative to the termination of her parental rights, and she attacks the court's instruction in which the contentions and theories of the parties were...


Wyoming Court Case: In the Interest of J.L.
Embracing distinctly unpleasant facts, this record indicates that JL was born in Georgia on November 15, 1984. Appellant, herself a product of parental abandonment and foster homes, was eighteen and married at the time of the child's birth. Shortly after JL's birth, the parents separated and appellant initiated divorce proceedings. For practical purposes, with one brief interlude, the father disappeared from this scenario...


Wyoming Court Case: Adoption of J.L.P.
Although we believe that appellees have more accurately identified the issues presented by this case, we would synthesize as the dispositive issue: Whether or not summary judgment is available in an action to terminate parental rights and, if so, whether or not appellees established, by clear and convincing evidence, facts sufficient to terminate the parental rights of appellant in this case...


Wyoming Court Case: In re C.H.
This court joins counsel, trial court and the jury in overwhelming concern about the present welfare and future well-being of this teenage person. Appellant's counsel, in behalf of ethical, moral and legal responsibilities, thoughtfully and comprehensively challenges certain jury instructions. The State, in response, rejects contended error in instruction text and alternatively argues harmless error. We affirm the termination decision. No manifest issue is presented which...


Wyoming Court Case: In re C.J.H.
The sole question raised in this case is whether the district court may order an adoption in the absence of a written consent by the child's father on the ground of willful failure to contribute to the support of the child when the father claims the failure to support was justified by a denial of the father's visitation privileges. The district court, following a hearing, found that the father of two minor children had willfully failed...


Wyoming Court Case: In re T.R.
Efforts by DPASS to improve appellant's abilities as a parent and to protect the children included parenting classes, mental health counseling, protective day care, and temporary foster care for the children. These efforts were largely unsuccessful, however, as continued incidents of neglect and complaints of abuse were documented. Beginning in the fall of 1984, as a result of the continuing problems, appellant's DPASS caseworker began discussing with appellant the possibility or option of relinquishing her children for adoption...


Wyoming Court Case: T.R.L. v. R.L.P.
The facts in this case primarily relate to its procedural history, and they are not in dispute. This case is rife with procedural irregularities, n1 caused in no small measure by the machinations of the parents in attempting to avoid their responsibilities, resulting in decisions below in which the self-serving interests of the parents prevailed over the best interests of the child. The child was born out of wedlock on January 22, 1985...


Wyoming Court Case: Adoption of R.D.S.
The record and materials filed in support of the petition reveal the following facts. n2 RDS was born to Appellant's daughter on March 9, 1983. According to RDS's mother, RDS's father is unknown. RDS's mother relinquished her parental rights, and, by an order entered on September 13, 1985, RDS became Appellees' adopted child. On June 2, 1989, Appellant petitioned the district court for visitation rights with RDS...


Wyoming Court Case: G.A.R. v. L.T.
'The duty of parents to provide for the maintenance of their children, is a principle of natural law; an obligation, says Puffendorf (b), laid on them not only by nature herself, but by their own proper act, in bringing them into the world:. By begetting them, therefore, they have entered into a voluntary obligation to endeavour, as far as in them lies, that the life which they have bestowed shall be supported and preserved...

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