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MATTER OF PIMA CTY. JUV. SEVERANCE ACTION

Nos. CV-93-0305-PR/SA, CV-94-0259-T/AP.

179 Ariz. 86 (1994)

876 P.2d 1121

In the Matter of the APPEAL IN PIMA COUNTY JUVENILE SEVERANCE ACTION NO. S-114487. The FATHER IN PIMA COUNTY JUVENILE ACTION NO. S-114487, Petitioner, v. Honorable Karen ADAM, Judge Pro Tem, Pima County Superior Court, State of Arizona, Respondent, and Robert FINN, Petitioner in Action No. S-114487; The Minor Child in Pima County Juvenile Action No. S-114487; The Mother in Pima County Juvenile Action No. S-114487, Real Parties in Interest, Prospective Adoptive Parents, Intervenors.

Supreme Court of Arizona, En Banc.

June 23, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Amy Z. Hubbell and Streich Lang, P.A., Tucson by Robert E. Miles, Phoenix, Dianne C. Kerns, Tucson, Susan G. Boswell, Tucson, for Minor Child.

Peter W. Hochuli, Tucson, for Natural Father.

Curtis & Cunningham by George Haskel Curtis, Tucson, for Prospective Adoptive Parents, Robert Finn, Minor Child, and Natural Mother.

Grant Woods, Atty. Gen., Phoenix by Joan R. Mendelson, Tucson, Cecil B. Patterson, Jr., Phoenix, for amicus curiae Arizona Dept. of Economic Security.

Stephen D. Neely, Pima County Atty. by David M. Quantz, Tucson, for amicus curiae Pima County Attorney's Office, Division of Child Advocacy.

Ann M. Haralambie, Tucson, for amicus curiae Arizona Counsel of Attys. for Children, Inc.

Children's Legal Clinic by Shari F. Shink, Denver, for amicus curiae Children's Legal Clinic.

OPINION

FELDMAN, Chief Justice.

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. The guardian argues that the trial judge erred in refusing to terminate the parental rights of the child's biological father. The guardian claims this unwed father abandoned the child and that his parental rights should...

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