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IN RE ADOPTION OF LILY T.

Docket: Lin-09-553.

997 A.2d 722 (2010)

2010 ME 58

ADOPTION OF LILY T.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: July 1, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Caleb J. Gannon, Esq., Andrews Bruce Campbell, P.A., Bowdoinham, ME, for the father.

Linda K. Yarmosh, Esq., Boothbay, ME, for petitioners.

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

ALEXANDER, J.

[¶ 1] The father of Lily T. appeals from a judgment of the Lincoln County Probate Court (Berry, J.) terminating his parental rights to Lily at the request of Lily's mother in order to allow Lily's stepfather to adopt her. The father argues that the Probate Court erred in finding, by clear and convincing evidence, that: (1) he is an unfit parent on the alternative statutory grounds of (i) abandonment, and (ii) unwillingness or inability to...

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