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MATTER OF BABY BOY SCEARCE

No. 8514DC755.

345 S.E.2d 404 (1986)

In the Matter of BABY BOY SCEARCE, DOB; 11/19/83.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

July 1, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Russell Odom, Durham, for Dept. of Social Services, petitioner-appellant; and M. Lynette Hartsell, Durham, for Jeffrey Harmon, respondent-appellant.

Carolyn McAllaster, Durham, for Kelly and Barbara Whitman, intervenors-appellees.

N. Joanne Foil, Durham, guardian ad litem, appellee.

COZORT, Judge.

On 11 December 1984, the District Court of Durham County awarded legal custody of a 13-month-old baby boy to foster parents with whom the baby had been placed by the Durham County Division of Social Services (DSS) when the baby was two days old. DSS instituted this action in February of 1984 by filing a petition asking the court to take jurisdiction for the purposes of terminating the parental rights of the biological father, whose identity was then...

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