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IN RE ADOPTION OF PATRICIA S.

Docket: Kno-08-269.

976 A.2d 966 (2009)

2009 ME 76

ADOPTION OF PATRICIA S.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: July 23, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Catherine R. Connors, Esq. (orally), Clifford H. Ruprecht, Esq., Pierce Atwood LLP, Portland, ME, for Patricia S.

Stephen W. Hanscom, Esq. (orally), Crandall, Hanscom & Collins, P.A., Rockland, ME, for Thomas J. Watson III and George J. Gillespie III, Trustees.

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

CLIFFORD, J.

[¶ 1] Patricia S. appeals from a summary judgment entered in the Knox County Probate Court (Emery, J.) in favor of Thomas J. Watson III and George J. Gillespie III, as trustees of two trusts, on their petition to annul party-in-interest Olive W.'s 1991 adoption of Patricia. Patricia contends that the court erred in determining that, as the person being adopted, she did not live in Maine at the time of the adoption, and therefore, did not comply...

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