exactly what parental rights did he have to terminate? Since his name was on the birth certificate there was some "cloud of fatherhood", if you will. Judge had to make a ruling to have it removed, I presume. A reverse paternity action if I ever saw one, if that's the way it happened.
The judge would have to order that his name be removed from the birth certificate if he was found not to be the biological father. But I'm sure the Gastons are not forthcoming as to how he was determined not be to be biological father. They wouldn't just take the word of the mother. I'd bet that DNA testing was done at some point & he was excluded.