IN RE ADOPTION OF AMBER R.

No. 134, September Term, 2009.

12 A.3d 130 (2011)

417 Md. 701

In re ADOPTION/GUARDIANSHIP OF AMBER R. and Mark R.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

January 24, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tamara D. Sanders , Asst. Public Defender ( Paul B. DeWolfe , Public Defender, Baltimore, MD), on brief, for petitioner.

Leslie K. Ridgway , Asst. Atty. Gen. ( Douglas F. Gansler , Atty. Gen. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD), on brief, for respondents.

Chandra M. Quaye (Lazarus & Burt, P.A., Baltimore, MD), on brief, for respondents.

Argued before HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, GREENE, MURPHY, ADKINS, BARBERA and JOHN C. ELDRIDGE, (Retired, Specially Assigned), JJ.


ADKINS, J.

In this termination of parental rights case, a mother asks us to reduce to a simple formula the multifaceted statutory criteria for termination, and to hold that the trial court improperly shifted unto her the burden of proving her qualifications as a parent. Petitioner Cathy F. ("Ms. F.") is the parent of Respondents Amber R. and Mark R. (the "Children"), who have each been adjudicated to be a Child in Need of...

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