JL.B. v. L.B.

No. 21-FM-134.

285 A.3d 1258 (2022)

JL.B., Appellant, v. L.B. and M.S., Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 15, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Massiel Leiva , with whom Donald P. Salzman , Annamaria Kimball , and Alexis Alvarez , were on the brief, Washington, for appellant Jl.B.

No brief was filed for appellees L.B. and M.S.

Melissa Colangelo , with whom Krystal Montgomery was on the brief, as guardian ad litem representing the interests of Ja.B.

Sasha Drobnick , Elizabeth Vogel , Joshua L. Richardson , and Caitlin M. Kasmar , Washington, filed a brief for the Domestic Violence Legal Empowerment and Appeals Project as amicus curiae in support of appellant Jl.B.

Before McLeese and Deahl, Associate Judges, and Ruiz, Senior Judge.


This custody dispute concerns Ja.B., who is now fourteen years old. The conflict is largely between Ja.B.'s mother, Jl.B., and his grandmother, L.B., though Ja.B.'s father, M.S., is also involved. Jl.B. was twenty years old when she had Ja.B. in 2008, and she enlisted her mother L.B. to help raise him. M.S. was largely out...

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