NEW JERSEY DIV. OF YOUTH v. C.S.


842 A.2d 215 (2004)

367 N.J. Super. 76

NEW JERSEY DIVISION OF YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. C.S. and J.G., Defendants-Respondents, In the Matter of the Guardianship of M.S., A minor.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided February 20, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter C. Harvey, Attorney General, attorney for appellant (Andrea M. Silkowitz, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel; Jane S. Blank, Deputy Attorney General, on the brief).

Yvonne Smith Segars, Public Defender, attorney for respondent C.S. (Alan I. Smith, Designated Counsel, of counsel and on the brief).

Yvonne Smith Segars, Public Defender, attorney for respondent J.G. (Harold Hoffman, Designated Counsel, of counsel and on the brief).

Yvonne Smith Segars, Public Defender, attorney for respondent M.S., a minor (James A. Louis, Deputy Public Defender, of counsel; Cynthia McCulloch DiLeo, Designated Counsel, on the brief).

Before Judges WEFING, COLLESTER and FUENTES.


The opinion of the court was delivered by COLLESTER, J.A.D.

I.

The central figure of this appeal is a little girl with the initials M.S. The Division of Youth and Family Services (DYFS) appeals from a December 26, 2002 order of the Family Part denying guardianship of the child. M.S. was born on April 24, 2000, delivered by a Lodi police officer in a trailer where her twenty-one year old mother, C.S., was temporarily...

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