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IN RE SOPHIE S.

No. 0203, September Term, 2005.

891 A.2d 1125 (2006)

167 Md. App. 91

In re SOPHIE S.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

February 2, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William E. Nolan (Nancy S. Foster, Public Defender on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

C.J. Messerschmidt (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General on the brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before KRAUSER, SHARER and WOODWARD, JJ.

SHARER, J.

In this appeal we are asked to decide whether a juvenile court has jurisdiction to award custody to a formerly non-custodial parent when the Department of Social Services ("the DSS") dismisses a CINA petition without having sustained any of the allegations against the formerly custodial parent.1 As we shall discuss, infra, the DSS has moved to dismiss this appeal on mootness grounds. Despite mootness of the custody issue...

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