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IN RE ADOPTION OF CADENCE B.

No. 21, September Term, 2010.

9 A.3d 14 (2010)

417 Md. 146

In re ADOPTION/Guardianship OF CADENCE B.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

November 22, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Piedad Gomez , Asst. Public Defender ( Paul B. DeWolfe , Public Defender, Baltimore, MD), on brief, for petitioner.

Ann M. Sheridan , Asst. Atty. Gen. ( Douglas F. Gansler , Atty. Gen. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD), on brief for respondent.

Marsha L. Williams (Legal Aid Bureau, Inc., Hughesville, MD), on brief, for respondent.

Argued before BELL, C.J., HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, GREENE, MURPHY, ADKINS and BARBERA, JJ.

ADKINS, J.

In this case, we must examine whether it is in a child's best interest to remain in foster care in the hopes that she may someday reunite with her natural parent, even though that neglectful parent continues to willfully absent himself from any meaningful contact with the child and the child's current caregivers are willing to provide her a permanent home through adoption. Here, Petitioner appeals from the juvenile court's decision changing his daughter...

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