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In re C.M.
E.M., father, and M.Q., mother, had a three-year relationship, resulting in the birth of C.M., the minor, in 2002. The relationship ended in 2003, after father stole a safe from mother’s parents’ home and moved in with his male partner. Family law orders awarded the parents joint legal custody and ordered father to pay child support, but father never voluntarily paid support for his child. Visitation became problematic after mother married D.Q., the stepfather, and father was convicted of first degree burglary in connection with the earlier theft of the safe from mother’s parents, resulting in his incarceration. Upon his release in 2007, mother opposed visitation without a monitor, obtained new family law orders awarding her sole custody and requiring father to participate in certain programs. For over a year, monitored visits took place, but father never completed the court-ordered programs, and visits stopped in 2009 due to father’s lack of funds to pay for the monitor. After a year, and after father sustained additional convictions, D.Q. filed a petition for a stepparent adoption and to terminate father’s parental rights. The court found abandonment and terminated the parental rights of father. Father appealed.
On appeal, father claims there is insufficient evidence to support the finding that father left C.M. with intent to abandon, or that he failed to provide support for the statutory period. We affirm.

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