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IN RE PETITION OF W.D.

No. 08-FS-1197.

988 A.2d 456 (2010)

In re PETITION OF W.D. & M.A.D. M.M., Appellant.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided January 28, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Amrutha Rode, for M.M.

Alice V. Stevens, Assistant Attorney General, with whom Peter J. Nickles, Attorney General for the District of Columbia, Todd S. Kim, Solicitor General, and Donna M. Murasky, Deputy Solicitor General, were on the brief, for the District of Columbia.

Before BLACKBURNE-RIGSBY and OBERLY, Associate Judges, and SCHWELB, Senior Judge.

OBERLY, Associate Judge:

M.M., the biological mother of T.M, challenges the adoption of T.M. by W.D. and M.A.D., a married couple. On appeal, M.M. argues that the trial court erred in waiving her consent to the adoption. (The biological father, S.G., has consented to the adoption.) "We recognize," as we always do in such cases, that "it is no small matter for a court to permit the adoption of a child over the objection of a mother who loves him." In re J.G.,

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