92 S.Ct. 1526, 32 L.Ed.2d 15 (1972)).”' R.R., 843 So.2d at 781 (quoting Lehr, 463 U.S. at 261, 103 S.Ct. 2985). Similarly, in an adoption case, this court has spoken to certain fundamental principles that define the significance of a father’s biological connection to a child: " 'The significance of the biological connection is that it offers the natural father an opportunity that no other male possesses to develop a relationship with his offspring. If he grasps that opportunity and accepts some measure of responsibility for the child’s future, he may enjoy the blessings of the parent-child relationship and . make uniquely valuable contributions to the child’s development.’ ” M.V.S. v. V.M.D., 776 So.2d 142, 146 (Ala.Civ. App.1999) (quoting Lehr, 463 U.S. at 262, 103 S.Ct. 2985) (<HOLDING>). 8 . The father would apparently have us
holding that the trial court had erred in imposing an obligation to pay child support when clear and convincing evidence established that the husband was not the father of the child holding failure to give putative father notice of adoption proceedings did not violate due process where he had never established a substantial relationship with his child holding that a child was not barred by a former statute of limitations applicable to actions to establish the existence of a father and child relationship when the current action was to establish the nonexistence of a father and child relationship and the presumed father no longer persisted in maintaining paternity holding that the natural father must have established a substantial relationship with the child to merit constitutional protection holding that court could permit grandparent or other person having substantial past contact with child to intervene in pending sapcr even though original suit requesting possessory conservatorship could not be filed by grandparent or other person and further holding that stepgrandmother had standing to intervene to seek managing conservatorship of child under section 102004b and section 1020039 where natural mother abandoned child after birth parents were divorced natural father remarried father had custody of child after father died child lived first with stepmother then with stepgrandmother and mother first sought custody when child was eleven years old