IN RE ADOPTION OF SEAN M.

No. 54, September Term, 2012.

63 A.3d 28 (2013)

430 Md. 695

In re Adoption of SEAN M.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

March 22, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip J. Sweitzer , (Philip J. Sweitzer, LLC, Annapolis, MD), on brief, for Petitioner.

Thomas F. Ellis, III , (Thomas F. Ellis, III, LLC, Annapolis, MD), on brief, for Respondent.

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


HARRELL, J.

We are asked in this matter whether the failure of a putative father to file timely a notice of objection to a proposed independent adoption operates as an irrevocable deemed consent to the termination of his assumed parental rights. This case involves the adoption of a minor child, Sean M. ("Sean"), by his stepfather, Respondent Jeffrey Craig K. Petitioner, William H., the putative father of Sean, filed an objection to the stepparent adoption one day...

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