In re J. P.

Decided 1982-06-09

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OAKS, Justice: In the Children’s Rights Act, ch. 40, 1980 Utah Laws 288 , amending U.C.A., 1953, § 78-3a-48(l), the Utah Legislature repealed the statutory provision allowing a court to “decree a termination of all parental rights” to a child on a finding that a parent is “unfit or incompetent by reason of conduct or condition seriously detrimental to the child,” and substituted a provi…

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