175 Ind. App. 618 - Rosell v. Dausman’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 162 Ind. App. 658 - Economy Oil Corp. v. Indiana Department of State Revenue · 134 Ind. App. 480 - In RE ADOPTION OF BRYANT v. Kurtz · 168 Ind. App. 563 - In the Matter of Adoption of Lockmondy · 158 Ind. App. 238 - Adoption of Anonymous I. v. K. · Horlock v. OGLESBY
Most-quoted passages
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““(g) Consent to adoption is not required of: (1) a parent or parents if the child is adjudged to have been abandoned or des erted for six (6) months or more immediately preceding the date of the filing of the petition; or a parent of a child in the custody of another person, if for a period of at least one (1) year he fails without justifiable cause to communicate significantly with the child when able to do so or knowingly fails to provide for the care and support of the child when able to do so as required by law or judicial decree (when the parent or parents have made only token efforts to support or to communicate with the child, the court may declare the child abandoned by the parent or parents); ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.