Adoption Case Brings Rare Family Law Dispute To High Court

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Take the usual agony of an adoption dispute. Add in the disgraceful U.S. history of ripping Indian children from their Native American families. Mix in a dose of initial fatherly abandonment. And there you have it - a poisonous and painful legal cocktail that goes before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday

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Actually he did want to pay for the kid. He was engaged to marry the mother. He was going to be paying for her and any future kids for the rest of his life. Most of the articles I've seen indicate that SHE walked out on him and broke up the engagement,

I'm not sure what the true story is in that case, but this article does mention that one fact beyond dispute is that Dusten did text Christy that he was giving up his parental rights and would not support the child? Possibly the reason he later changed his mind and filed for custody is because he assumed the biologicial mother would be raising their child and he would still have contact with them, and then when he heard about her being put up for adoption that made it less likely that he would be playing much of a role in her life

Still I can understand people saying that he doesn't exactly come off as father of the year here if he wasn't interested in providing any financial support to the mother of his child, and just wanted an arrangement when he could vist occasionally and play Dad that way