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IN RE ALONZA D.

No. 41 September Term, 2009.

987 A.2d 536 (2010)

412 Md. 442

In re ADOPTION/GUARDIANSHIP OF ALONZA D., JR. and Shaydon S.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

January 19, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marc A. DeSimone, Jr., Asst. Public Defender (Elizabeth L. Julian, Acting Public Defender, on brief), Baltimore, MD, for Petitioners.

Leslie K. Ridgway, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Douglas F. Gansler, Atty. Gen. of Maryland, on brief), Baltimore, MD; Janet Hartge (Legal Aid Bureau, Inc.), Baltimore, MD (as amicus) (Harriet G. McCullough, Lazarus & Burt, P.A., on brief), Baltimore, MD, for Respondents.

Brief of the amicus curiae, Legal Aid Bureau for Respondents: Janet Hartge, Esquire, Joan F. Little, Esquire, Legal Aid Bureau, Inc., Baltimore, MD.

ARGUED BEFORE BELL, C.J., HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, GREENE, MURPHY, ADKINS and BARBERA, JJ.

BATTAGLIA, Judge.

In the present case, involving termination of parental rights, we are called upon to address one question on certiorari, that being:

Where petitioner's sons were involuntary taken from his custody and, over his objections, were kept in the custody of a third party for six years, was it error for the lower court to find that this period of separation between father and sons, and the commensurate bonding between the children and the foster...

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