IN RE SWOPE

Docket No. 130408.

190 Mich. App. 478 (1991)

476 N.W.2d 459

In re SWOPE

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided August 5, 1991, at 9:00 A.M.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Taylor & Walters (by Frederick J. Taylor), for the petitioners.

James J. Gregart, Prosecuting Attorney, and David W. DeBack, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the respondent.

Before: GRIBBS, P.J., and HOOD and GRIFFIN, JJ.


GRIBBS, P.J.

Petitioners Edwin and Lynn Swope appeal as of right a probate court order dismissing their petition to terminate their parental rights to their adopted child, hereafter referred to as M, born February 7, 1976. We affirm.

Petitioners adopted M and her biological sister in June 1979. M is, by all accounts, a pretty, talented, likeable young woman. M had been the victim of physical abuse before her adoption. It appears from the record that M believed...

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