Adoption of H.R

In Adoption of H.R. (2012) 205 Cal.App.4th 455, the trial court found the father was a Kelsey S. father for a variety of reasons. The father participated, as far as the mother would allow, during prenatal care. He attempted to marry the mother; their relationship was terminated by the mother, who then blocked the father from receiving any information on the yet unborn minor. "Father almost immediately sought the court's protection by filing an action to determine paternity and by obtaining DNA testing ... . ... Father tried to live with mother and planned on marrying her. They moved together to a two-bedroom apartment." (Id. at p. 468.) The father furnished a room with a crib and changing table even though the child lived with the mother. The evidence was uncontested that the father maintained contact with the child as often as permitted, and that he and the child had actually bonded. (Ibid.) On these facts, the court found that there was substantial evidence to support the trial judge's conclusion that the father met the standards of a Adoption of Kelsey S. (1992) father.