IN RE JACOB B.

Docket: Pen-08-213.

959 A.2d 734 (2008)

2008 ME 168

In re JACOB B.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: November 13, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Pickering, Esq., Largay Law Offices, P.A., Bangor, ME, for the father.

Joseph M. Baldacci, Esq., Bangor, ME, for the mother.

Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and CLIFFORD, ALEXANDER, LEVY, SILVER, MEAD, and GORMAN, JJ.


ALEXANDER, J.

[¶ 1] The father of Jacob B. appeals from a judgment entered in the Penobscot County Probate Court (Woodcock, J.) terminating his parental rights to Jacob B. The termination proceeding was initiated by Jacob's mother in order to allow her husband, Jacob's stepfather, to adopt Jacob. The father argues that the Probate Court erred in (1) finding termination of his parental rights was in Jacob's best interest, and (2) refusing to vacate his...

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