IN RE: CHADEN M.

No. 56, September Term, 2010.

30 A.3d 935 (2011)

422 Md. 498

In re ADOPTION/Guardianship OF CHADEN M.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

October 25, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Nenutzka C. Villamar , Asst. Public Defender ( Paul B. DeWolfe , Public Defender, Baltimore, MD; David Craig Wright , Chief Counsel of Child Advocacy Project Eastern Shore, Inc., Chestertown, MD), on brief, for respondent.

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


BARBERA, J.

In this case we address the obligation of an attorney, appointed to represent an allegedly disabled parent, to preserve that parent's right to object to a petition for guardianship of the parent's child, in the event that the juvenile court ultimately determines that the parent is not disabled. This matter arose out of a guardianship proceeding instituted in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City ("juvenile court"). The juvenile court granted guardianship...

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