Filed on November 4, 2008
Not designated for permanent publication
A-08-422
SUMMARY: Although the father had not had contact with the child six months prior to the filing of the termination petition, he did not abandon the child as he was not included in the case for 4 years, received information he did not fully understand and was [...]

Filed on November 4, 2008
Not designated for permanent publication
A-08-210
SUMMARY: The finding of abandonment, and the resulting consent to adoption, was improper because the petitioners did not provide clear and convincing evidence to establish the father’s intent to rid himself of parenting obligations in the 6-month period prior to filing the petition.
Rylee R., DOB 3/29/01, is [...]

Filed on November 14, 2006
15 Neb. App. 179, 723 N.W.2d 652
SUMMARY: The court found that the father’s “failure to intervene, when he was provided with substandard information, [did] not constitute abandonment,” and that the father’s use of the “automatic withdrawal payment process for child support” was not “a token effort, nor [did] it someone negatively [...]

Filed on February 21, 2006
Not designated for permanent publication
Nebraska Court of Appeals, A-05-932
SUMMARY: “[T]he obligation which a parent owes to his or her children is not something which can be simply ‘phoned in’” and “[s]mall tokens of parental affection for a child are an inadequate substitute for parental presence in a child’s life.”

The father [...]

Filed on January 13, 2006
270 Neb. 828, 708 N.W.2d 802
SUMMARY: Adjudication was proper in a case involving a father who knew about the juvenile court proceedings involving his son for nearly two years, but “failed to put himself in a position to safely assume the parental care, support or protection of” his son. Termination was [...]