IN RE SHANAIRA C.

No. 18136.

1 A.3d 5 (2010)

297 Conn. 737

In re SHANAIRA C.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided August 10, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roseann Canny, for the appellant (intervenor Stephanie E.).

John E. Tucker, assistant attorney general, with whom, on the brief, were Richard Blumenthal, attorney general, and Susan T. Pearlman and Patricia B. Johnson, assistant attorneys general, for the appellee (petitioner).

Marcia McCormack, for the appellee (respondent mother).

Rosemarie T. Weber, for the appellee (respondent father).

Trudy Condio, for the minor child.

Sarah Healy Eagan and Martha Stone filed a brief for the Center for Children's Advocacy, Inc., as amicus curiae.

ROGERS, C.J., and NORCOTT, PALMER, VERTEFEUILLE and McLACHLAN, Js.


PALMER, J.

The dispositive issue in this certified appeal is whether the Appellate Court properly affirmed the judgment of the trial court, which revoked the commitment of the minor child, Shanaira C., to the custody of the petitioner, the commissioner of children and families (commissioner), and awarded sole custody of Shanaira to the respondent Maria R., Shanaira's biological mother. Specifically, we must determine whether the Appellate Court properly concluded...

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