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IN RE R.E.S.

No. 08-FS-451.

19 A.3d 785 (2011)

In re Petition of R.E.S., D.F., Appellant.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 19, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laurie P. McManus , for appellant D.F.

Sharon A. Singh , filed a supplemental brief, for appellee R.E.S.

Stacy L. Anderson , Assistant Attorney General, with whom Irvin B. Nathan , Acting 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.

Alicia Barsoumian , Guardian Ad Litem for D.T., filed a supplemental brief.

Before GLICKMAN and FISHER, Associate Judges, and REID, Associate Judge, Retired.

FISHER, Associate Judge:

This is the second time D.F. has come before this court in an effort to set aside a final decree granting R.E.S.'s petition to adopt his biological daughter D.T. without his consent. Following our remand for a hearing, D.F. now challenges the denial of his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel. We reject his contentions and affirm.

I. Background

D.T. was born in 1995 and removed from her mother L.B.'s care in 2001 due...

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