ADOPTION OF RIAHLEIGH M.

Docket: Cum-18-9; Cum-18-12.

202 A.3d 1174 (2019)

2019 ME 24

ADOPTION OF RIAHLEIGH M. Adoption of MyAnnah D.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: February 14, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael G. Keefe, Esq. (orally), Portland, for appellant father of Riahleigh M.

John F. Zink, Esq. (orally), Freeport, for appellant father of MyAnnah D.

Timothy E. Robbins, Esq. (orally), South Portland, for appellee maternal grandmother.

Christopher Berry, Esq. , Bridgton, for Amicus Curiae, The American Academy of Adoption & Assisted Reproduction Attorneys.

Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and ALEXANDER, MEAD, GORMAN, JABAR, HJELM, and HUMPHREY, JJ.


[¶1] In the two appeals that we address in this consolidated opinion, we consider whether a parent whose parental rights are at stake in a judicial termination proceeding that does not involve the Department of Health and Human Services is constitutionally entitled to the services that are ordinarily provided in a title 22 child...

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