IN RE LISA P.


511 A.2d 1063 (1986)

In re LISA P.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided July 8, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Tierney, Atty. Gen., Christopher Leighton, (orally), John H. Hawkes, Asst. Atty. Gen., Augusta, Fenton, Chapman, Fenton, Smith & Kane Douglas Chapman, (orally), Bar Harbor, for mother.

Brown, Tibbetts, Churchill & LaCasse, Daniel L. LaCasse, (orally), John A. Mitchell, (orally), Calais, Guardian Ad Litem.

Before McKUSICK, C.J., and NICHOLS, ROBERTS, GLASSMAN and SCOLNIK, JJ.


McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

On January 28, 1986, in consolidated proceedings under the Child Protection Act, the District Court (Calais) entered judgment 1) terminating Marjorie W.'s parental rights to her seven-year-old daughter, Lisa P., who had been in the custody of the Department of Human Services (Department) since August of 1984, and 2) ordering the return of Lisa to the custody of her maternal grandparents, who had cared for her during the first 4½ years...

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