IN RE GUARDIANSHIP OF STEVENS

Docket No. Pen-12-537.

86 A.3d 1197 (2014)

2014 ME 25

GUARDIANSHIP OF Zacharia Hartley STEVENS.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: February 18, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kirk D. Bloomer, Esq. , Bloomer Law Office, P.A., Bangor, on the briefs and argued, for appellant Kristy Lynn Bouchard Hill.

Barbara A. Cardone, Esq. , Lanham Blackwell, P.A., Bangor, on the briefs and argued, for appellees Linda and Gordon Walls.

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


LEVY, J.

[¶ 1] This appeal causes us to consider the scope of the Probate Court's discretion regarding transitional arrangements to reunite a child under a guardianship with his biological parent. Kristy Lynn Bouchard Hill appeals from a judgment entered in the Penobscot County Probate Court (Woodcock, J.) denying her petition to terminate the guardianship of her son, Zacharia. Because we conclude that the court erred in denying Hill's petition without...

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