128.095 - When putative father presumed to have intended to abandon child.

128.095  When putative father presumed to have intended to abandon child.  If the putative father of a child fails to acknowledge the child or petition to have his parental rights established in a court of competent jurisdiction before a hearing on a petition to terminate his parental rights, he is presumed to have intended to abandon the child.

      (Added to NRS by 1975, 964; A 1979, 1284)