1. What was the stepfather’s claim in the intermediate appellate court?
2. What did the appellate court decide?
3. What rationale did the Wyoming Supreme Court give for its decision?

Kite, Justice
CJ is the stepfather of ADA and SSA (the children), and SA is their biological father. Stepfather petitioned the district court to adopt the children without father’s consent because father had failed to provide adequate child support for the children. The district court denied the petition, finding stepfather failed to prove by clear and convincing evidence that father willfully failed to pay child support..