IN RE N.N.N.

No. 06-FS-872.

985 A.2d 1113 (2009)

In re Petition of N.N.N.; D.H., Appellant.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 31, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leslie J. Susskind, appointed by this court, for appellant.

Jon J. Nathan, with whom Philip W. Horton was on the brief, for appellee, N.N.N.

Stacy L. Anderson, Assistant Attorney General for the District of Columbia, with whom Peter J. Nickles, Acting Attorney General for the District of Columbia (at the time the brief was filed), Todd S. Kim, Solicitor General, and Donna M. Murasky, Deputy Solicitor General, were on the brief for appellee, District of Columbia.

Christopher May, for appellee De.H., adopting the brief of appellees N.N.N. and the District of Columbia.

Before RUIZ, FISHER, and BLACKBURNE-RIGSBY, Associate Judges.


BLACKBURNE-RIGSBY, Associate Judge:

In this adoption matter, D.H. (appellant, birth mother) makes three arguments on appeal: First, she contends that the trial court lacked personal jurisdiction over her in the adoption proceeding below. Second, she argues that Super. Ct. Adoption R. 4 and her due process rights were violated because she was not personally served with the summons for the adoption hearing — the hearing at which the magistrate judge waived her...

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