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IN RE M.A.K.

489 Pa. 597 (1980)

414 A.2d 1052

In re M.A.K. and R.L.K., minors. Appeal of ALLEGHENY COUNTY INSTITUTION DISTRICT.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided May 30, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James H. McLean, County Sol., Cheryl Allen Craig, Asst. County Sol., Pittsburgh, for appellant.

Rosalia G. Parker, Neighborhood Legal Services, Pittsburgh, for Mrs. Mercedes Kelly-mother.

Shari F. Shink, Child Advocacy Division, Pittsburgh, for intervenors Mercedes Ann Kelly and Rebecca Lee Kelly, minors.

Before EAGEN, C.J., and O'BRIEN, ROBERTS, NIX, LARSEN, FLAHERTY and KAUFFMAN, JJ.

OPINION OF THE COURT

EAGEN, Chief Justice.

On November 20, 1978, appellant, Allegheny County Institution District (the Agency), filed a petition for the involuntary termination of parental rights and duties of appellee, M.A.K., the natural mother, to her children M.K. and R.K. After a hearing on March 12, 1979, both parties filed post-trial briefs, and, on April 11, 1979, the chancellor or hearing judge entered a decree nisi terminating the parental rights...

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