West Virginia Code § 48-22-102

Abandonment defined
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"Abandonment" means any conduct by the birth mother, legal father, determined father,
outsider father, unknown father or putative father that demonstrates a settled purpose to
forego all duties and relinquish all parental claims to the child.

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