Utah Code Title 78B. Judicial Code § 78B-6-120.1. Implied consent

(a) “Abandonment” means failure of a father, with reasonable knowledge of the pregnancy, to offer and provide financial and emotional support to the birth mother for a period of six months before the day on which the adoptee is born.

(b) “Emotional support” means a pattern of statements or actions that indicate to a reasonable person that a father intends to provide for the physical and emotional well-being of an unborn child.

(2)(a) A court may not determine that a father abandoned the birth mother if the father failed to provide financial or emotional support because the birth mother refused to accept support.

(b) A court may not find that a father failed to provide emotional support if the father's failure was due to impossibility of performance.

(a) abandonment;

(b) leaving the adoptee with a third party, without providing the third party with the parent's identification, for 30 consecutive days;

(c) knowingly leaving the adoptee with another person, without providing for support, communicating, or otherwise maintaining a substantial relationship with the adoptee, for six consecutive months;  or

(d) receiving notification of a pending adoption proceeding under Subsection 78B-6-110(6) or of a termination proceeding under Section 78B-6-112 and failing to respond as required.