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Birth Father’s Rights
Some Utah adoption agencies ‘coach’ mothers to take rights from fathers
From 9News (NBC): After a Colorado father went through four years of legal battles to get custody of his daughter – who was put up for adoption without his consent – 9NEWS uncovered evidence of a system in Utah where agencies are coaching mothers to deceive fathers out of their parental rights. Utah adoption lawyer [...]
Rift in Utah Adoption Council leads president to resign
From The Salt Lake Tribune: The president of the Utah Adoption Council resigned his post Tuesday — and launched his own competing organization — amid claims the group ignores unethical practices of some adoption agencies and has failed to treat birth fathers fairly. Salt Lake attorney Wes Hutchins, whose one-year term was set to end [...]
Father wins visitation rights in adoption custody battle
From Fox 31 Denver: Rob Manzanares has only seen his daughter once in four and a half years but that hasn’t stopped him from battling courts in Utah and Colorado to get custody of his child. A judge in Denver Friday decided to allow him visitation rights going forward, something he calls a victory for [...]
On Adopting From Utah and Other “Adoption Friendly” States
We have posted several news articles about birth father’s rights recently, and many of these cases involve adoptions in Utah. In some of these cases, birth mothers have deceived the fathers, signing adoption papers without notifying them that they had gone to Utah or that the child(ren) had been born. We have worked personally with [...]
Virginia father gets green light to seek damages in Utah adoption
From The Salt Lake Tribune: The Supreme Court of Virginia on Friday gave new life to the legal battle over a child known as Baby Emma by ruling her father was “purposefully kept in the dark” about her Utah adoption and could argue in federal court that the proceedings interfered with his parental rights. In [...]
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