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ADOPTION OF LIAM O.

Docket No. Kno-14-541.

138 A.3d 485 (2016)

2016 ME 66

ADOPTION OF LIAM O.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: May 3, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sarah I. Gilbert, Esq. , (orally), Elliott & MacLean, LLP, Camden, for appellant mother.

Janet T. Mills , Attorney General, and Christopher C. Leighton , Asst. Atty. Gen. (orally), Office of the Attorney General, Portland, for appellee Department of Health and Human Services.

Concurrence: ALEXANDER, J.

[¶ 1] The mother of Liam O. appeals from a judgment of the Knox County Probate Court (Emery, J.) denying her petitions to terminate Liam's father's parental rights and to adopt Liam. Because the court apparently considered the State's financial interest in determining Liam's best interest, we vacate and remand to the...

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