Appeals court: Terminate father’s parental rights

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'The Pennsylvania Superior Court has ordered a Blair County judge to terminate a father's parental rights because the local man never had a relationship with his 4-year-old son.

In an opinion written by Judge Mary Jane Bowes, the state appeals court reversed an order by Blair County Judge Wade A. Kagarise that granted the father parental rights, ruling that the mother created "obstacles" to bar the father from the child's life.

The three-judge Superior Court panel that included Bowes, Judge Kate Ford Elliott and Senior Judge John L. Musmanno, summed up its argument by stating, "Here, our examination of the entire history of this case reveals the father failed to exercise reasonable firmness in order to overcome the obstacles he alleges that mother created, and he abdicated all parental responsibility with respect (to the child)."'