IN RE GUARDIANSHIP OF JEWEL M.

Docket: Yor-09-276

989 A.2d 726 (2010)

2010 ME 17

GUARDIANSHIP OF JEWEL M.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: March 9, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Amanda E. Ramirez, Esq. (orally), McGarry & Holmes, LLC, Wells, ME, for the father.

John A. Turcotte, Esq. (orally), Ainsworth, Thelin & Raftice, P.A., South Portland, ME, for the maternal grandmother.

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


LEVY, J.

[¶ 1] The father of Jewel M. appeals from a judgment of the York County Probate Court (Bailey, J.) appointing guardianship of the child to the maternal grandmother pursuant to 18-A M.R.S. § 5-204(c) (2009). On appeal, the father argues that the court erred by (1) concluding that the statutory standard of a temporarily intolerable living situation had been established as applied to him, and (2) denominating the guardianship to be a permanent...

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