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IN RE ADOPTION NO. A91-71A

No. 113, September Term, 1993.

334 Md. 538 (1994)

640 A.2d 1085

IN RE ADOPTION/GUARDIANSHIP NO. A91-71A IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

May 9, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Mark Sandler (Lloyd J. Snow, Freishtat & Sandler, all on brief), Baltimore (Natalie H. Rees, Rees and Boyd, P.A., all on brief), Towson, Rignal W. Baldwin, Jr. (Deborah M. Levine, Brassel & Baldwin, P.A., all on brief), Annapolis, for petitioner.

Roger A. Perkins, Annapolis, for respondent.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI and BELL, JJ., and CHARLES F. ORTH, JR., Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals (retired), Specially Assigned.

MURPHY, Chief Judge.

This case involves a contested independent adoption proceeding, namely, an adoption not arranged by a child placement agency but rather by and between a biological parent and prospective adoptive parents. A threshold issue in the case is whether a court must appoint separate counsel for a child who is the subject of an independent adoption. Another primary issue requires that we address the proper application of the best interest standard in terminating...

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