IN RE ADOPTION OF HALI D.

Docket: Sag-08-502

974 A.2d 916 (2009)

2009 ME 70

ADOPTION OF HALI D.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: July 16, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Erika S. Bristol, Esq., Auburn, ME, for the father.

E. Anne Carton, Esq., Law Office of E. Anne Carton, Brunswick, ME, for the mother and current husband.

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


ALEXANDER, J.

[¶ 1] The father of Hali D. appeals from a judgment entered in the Sagadahoc County Probate Court (Voorhees, J.) terminating his parental rights pursuant to 22 M.R.S. § 4055(1)(B)(2) (2008). The mother and her current husband initiated the termination proceeding to allow the husband to adopt Hali in a concurrent adoption proceeding. The father is incarcerated in federal prison and has not had any contact with Hali since 2002, when she...

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