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Judge grants adoption of 10-year-old Sean; finds biological parents abandoned child
Summary
A Cheatham County judge found that both biological parents failed to provide support or meaningful visitation and granted Gabriel Toth's petition to adopt 10-year-old Sean. The court made statutory findings of abandonment and ordered the adoption to be entered, creating a permanent parent-child legal relationship.
A Cheatham County judge on the record granted an adoption petition that will make Gabriel Toth the legal parent of 10-year-old Sean, finding the change is in the child's paramount best interest.
The judge made explicit factual findings on the record, stating both biological parents had failed to provide support and had engaged only in "token" visitation during the statutory period prior to the filing of the…
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