The Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit, affirmed the trial court’s judgment that terminated appellant-biological father’s parental rights to his biological son, finding that the trial court did not err when it found that appellant failed to prove that he made reasonable attempts to manifest a parental commitment to the child. Here, biological mother was artificially inseminated with appellant’s sperm in late 2009. At the time, appellant and mother had had an on-again/off-again sexual relationship. After the child’s birth, mother began a relationship with and eventually married C.E.B., who then petitioned to adopt the child. Appellant-biological father filed a petition objecting the termination of his parental rights and adoption, but the trial court found that appellant had failed to establish his parental rights to the child because he had known at a very early stage that he was the child’s father and had not made any efforts to see or support the child and, thus, terminated his rights. The court of appeals affirmed the decision, finding no manifest error in the trial court’s order.
Cite: No. 14-428; 2014 La. App. LEXIS 2858 (La. Ct. App., Dec. 3, 2014)
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