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The Pennsylvania Su­­preme Court has upheld the termination of parental rights of a Bedford County man, but the 5-2 decision issued March 26 raised several questions that remain to be answered.
The state’s highest court was reviewing a case in which a father was challenging a decision by Bedford County Common Pleas Court Judge Thomas S. Ling to terminate his parental rights.
The father and mother broke off their relationship shortly after their child’s birth eight years ago.
For three years, the father maintained contact with the child and paid support, but the mother married and she and the boy’s stepfather petitioned the court to terminate the rights of the natural father so the stepfather could adopt the child. ....

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