Adoption of Tobias D.
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R.M. appealed from a judgment entered in the probate court denying his petition to establish his parental rights to Tobias D. and granting the petition of the child's current guardians to terminate R.M.'s parental rights to the child. The Supreme Court vacated the judgment of the probate court and remanded the matter for entry of an order requiring DNA testing, as the child's actual parentage was not resolved. If, as the probate court assumed, R.M. was the child's biological father, the probate court would need to decide R.M.'s petition to establish parental rights and the guardians' petition to terminate R.M.'s parental rights in accordance with this opinion.
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