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IN RE M.V.H.

Nos. 15-FS-662, 15-FS-720, 15-FS-721.

143 A.3d 94 (2016)

In re M.V.H. M.V.H., Appellant, In re M.V.H. L.H., Appellant, In re L.F.G. L.H., Appellant.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided July 21, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leslie J. Susskind , for appellant M.V.H.

Carla S. Rappaport , for appellant L.H.

Lucy Vera Osakwe , for appellee L.F.G.

Rhondalyn Primes Okoroma , Assistant Attorney General, with whom Karl A. Racine , Attorney General for the District of Columbia, Todd S. Kim , Solicitor General, and Loren L. AliKhan , Deputy Solicitor General, were on the brief, for the District of Columbia.

Jessie Forsythe , with whom Melissa Colangelo , and Abraham Sisson , were on the brief, for guardian ad litem Children's Law Center.

Before GLICKMAN and THOMPSON, Associate Judges, and REID, Senior Judge.

L.H. (the biological mother of the child A.H.) and M.V.H. (A.H.'s maternal grandmother) appeal the Superior Court order granting the adoption petition of L.F.G. (A.H.'s foster mother) and denying M.V.H.'s competing petition, to which L.H. consented. We affirm.

I.

A.H. was born on February 19, 2010. For...

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