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STATE EX REL. TREADWAY v. McCOY

No. 21460.

429 S.E.2d 492 (1993)

189 W.Va. 210

STATE of West Virginia ex rel. Gail TREADWAY, now Charlotte Richmond, Child Protective Service Worker, West Virginia Department of Health & Human Resources, Petitioner Below, Appellee, v. Richard McCOY, Father; Willard McCoy, Infant; and Angela Pearl Meadows, Infant, Respondents Below, Appellees, Angela Pearl Meadows, Infant, Respondent Below; and Cletus Browning and Janet Browning, His Wife, Foster Parents, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided April 8, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Darrell V. McGraw, Jr., Atty. Gen., Thomas M. Woodward, Deputy Atty. Gen., Charleston, for appellee.

G. Ernest Skaggs, Fayetteville, guardian ad litem, for McCoy.

D. Clinton Gallaher, IV, Fayetteville, guardian ad litem, for Meadows.

Lynn B. Pollard, Oak Hill, for appellants.

NEELY, Justice:

This is a custody dispute between foster parents, Cletus and Janet Browning, appellants,1 who have looked after Angela Pearl Meadows since she was ten months old (and now want to adopt her) and little Angela's half-sister (who also wants to adopt Angela). The half-sister, Rita McCoy Stetson, has had virtually no contact with Angela since Angela's birth. The Brownings have cared for Angela since May, 1990, when Angela was...

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