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IN RE T.M.J.

Nos. 04-FS-987, 04-FS-988 and 04-FS-1663.

878 A.2d 1200 (2005)

In re Petition of T.M.J., J.A., Appellant.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided July 14, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Madhavan K. Nair, for appellant.

Christopher J. Burke, with whom Eric H. Holder, Jr., was on the brief, Washington, DC, for T.M.J.*

Stacy L. Anderson, Assistant Attorney General, with whom Robert J. Spagnoletti, Attorney General for the District of Columbia, and Edward E. Schwab, Deputy Attorney General, were on the brief, for the District of Columbia.

Before FARRELL and RUIZ, Associate Judges, and PRYOR, Senior Judge.

FARRELL, Associate Judge:

At issue here is a dispute between the adoptive mother (previously the foster parent) and a grandmother of a six-year-old boy, S.A. The trial judge, after an evidentiary hearing, waived the requirement of parental consent, see D.C.Code § 16-304(e) (2001), and granted the adoption petition of T.M.J. over the declared preference of the biological parents that S.A. be placed with his maternal grandmother, J.A., a Maryland resident...

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