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IN RE ADOPTION OF R.L.M.

No. 57557-1-I.

156 P.3d 940 (2007)

In the Matter of the ADOPTION OF R.L.M., a minor, DOB: 10/18/99. Monesa Sunderland, Appellant, v. State of Washington, Department of Social and Health Services, and Adoptive Parents, Respondents.

Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 1.

April 30, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard J. Feldman, Matthew Aaron Carvalho, Heller Ehrman LLP, Seattle, WA, for Appellant.

Monesa Sunderland, Everett, WA, (Appearing Pro Se).

Christian Williams, Attorney Generals Office, Seattle, WA, Michael Scott Majors, Office of Attorney General, Everett, WA, for Respondents.

Kirsten Jensen Haugen, Everett, for Minor.

Linda Eileen Passey, Law Office of Linda Passey, Marysville, for Other Parties.

AGID, J.

¶ 1 R.L.M. is a seven year old girl. Monesa Sunderland is her paternal aunt. When R.L.M. was four years old, the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) removed her from her parents and placed her with Sunderland. DSHS later removed R.L.M. from Sunderland because of her drug use and placed the child with a foster-adopt family. Sunderland completed a drug recovery program and parenting classes and sought to adopt R.L.M.R.L.M.'s foster parents...

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