IN RE GUARDIANSHIP OF JEREMIAH T.

Docket: Pen-08-696.

976 A.2d 955 (2009)

2009 ME 74

GUARDIANSHIP OF JEREMIAH T.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: July 23, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jennifer L. Eastman, Esq. (orally), William B. Devoe, Esq., Eaton Peabody, Bangor, ME, for the mother.

Kerry Clark Jordan, Esq. (orally), Griffin & Jordan, LLC, Orono, ME, for the guardians.

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


ALEXANDER, J.

[¶ 1] The mother of Jeremiah T. appeals from a judgment entered in the Penobscot County Probate Court (Woodcock, J.) denying her petition to terminate the guardianship for her son obtained by the child's maternal great-grandparents. The mother argues that the Probate Court erred in: (1) failing to conclude that she has a fundamental liberty interest in parenting her child and in failing to give weight to that interest in determining the best...

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