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IN RE GUARDIANSHIP OF JEWEL M.

Docket: Yor-10-230.

2 A.3d 301 (2010)

2010 ME 80

GUARDIANSHIP OF JEWEL M.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: August 17, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Amanda E. Ramirez, Esq., McGarry & Holmes, LLC, Wells, ME, for father.

John A. Turcotte, Esq., Ainsworth, Thelin & Raftice, P.A., South Portland, ME, for grandmother.

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

ALEXANDER, J.

[¶ 1] In this appeal we address, again, an issue that has recently arisen with some frequency: the quality of evidence that must be presented and standards of proof that must be met to remove a child from a parent's care and custody through a guardianship proceeding. See 18-A M.R.S. § 5-204(c) (2009). For the second time, the father of Jewel M. appeals from a judgment of the York County Probate Court (Bailey, J.) granting the...

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