T.J.B. v. E.C.


438 Pa.Super. 529 (1995)

652 A.2d 936

T.J.B., Appellee, v. E.C. and Thomas "Doe" and Donna "Doe". Appeal of Thomas "DOE" and Donna "Doe", Appellants. In re ADOPTION OF M.J.C., Appellee. Appeal of Thomas "DOE" and Donna "Doe", the Persons who Filed the Report of Intention to Adopt, and Samuel C. Totaro, Jr., Esquire, Appellants.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Filed January 20, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel C. Totaro, Bensalem, John S. Thome, Jr., Doylestown, for Thomas "Doe" and Donna "Doe".

Michael H. Applebaum, Bensalem, for T.J.B.

Robert H. Yaroschuk, Doylestown, for M.J.C.

John S. Thome, Jr., Doylestown, for E.E.C.

Before ROWLEY, President Judge, and KELLY and CERCONE, JJ.


KELLY, Judge:

In this appeal we are asked to determine whether the trial court erred in denying appellants', the pre-adoptive parents', Thomas Doe's and Jane Doe's, petition to involuntarily terminate the appellee's, the natural father's, T.J.B.'s, parental rights to M.J.C., a male infant less than six months old, and awarding legal and physical custody of M.J.C. to appellee instead of appellants. We hold that the trial court's denial of appellants' petition to involuntarily...

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