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IN RE ADOPTION NO. T98097012

Nos. 30, 32 Sept. Term, 1999.

746 A.2d 379 (2000)

358 Md. 1

In re ADOPTION/GUARDIANSHIP NO. T97036005. In re Adoption/Guardianship Nos. T98097012, T98265014, T98198001.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

February 15, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hannah E.M. Lieberman and Daniel Hatcher (Pauline Mandel and Mark Friedenthal, Legal Aid Bureau, on brief), Baltimore, for petitioners.

C.J. Messerschmidt, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

Stephen E. Harris Public Defender, Michael R. Braudes, Asst. Public Defender, Baltimore, brief of Public Defender as amicus curiae—filed on behalf of petitioner.

Gary S. Posner, Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, LLP, Mitchell Y. Mirviss, Venable, Baetjer and Howard, LLP, Baltimore, brief of amici curiae L.J., et al.—filed on behalf of appellants.

Argued before BELL, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, RAKER, WILNER, CATHELL and THEODORE G. BLOOM (retired, specially assigned), JJ.

RAKER, Judge.

The children in these four consolidated cases, all foster children in the care of the Baltimore City Department of Social Services (BCDSS), had previously been adjudicated Children In Need of Assistance (CINA) pursuant to Maryland Code (1973, 1998 Repl.Vol., 1999 Supp.) § 3-812 of the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article. In each case, BCDSS filed in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City a petition for guardianship with the right to consent to...

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