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ADOPTION OF PAISLEY

Docket: Kno-17-328.

178 A.3d 1228 (2018)

2018 ME 19

ADOPTION OF PAISLEY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: January 30, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin P. Sullivan, Esq. (orally), Sullivan Law, P.C., Augusta, for appellants, adoptive parents of two of Paisley's biological siblings.

Sarah Irving Gilbert, Esq. (orally), Elliott, MacLean, Gilbert & Coursey, LLP, Camden, for appellee foster parents.

Janet T. Mills , Attorney General, and Meghan Szylvian , Asst. Atty. Gen. (orally), Office of the Attorney General, Augusta, for appellee Department of Health and Human Services.

Concurrence: SAUFLEY, C.J.

[¶ 1] The appellants, the adoptive parents of two of Paisley's five biological siblings, appeal from a judgment of the District Court (Rockland, Sparaco, J.) denying their petition to adopt Paisley and granting the petition of the appellees, Paisley's foster parents, to adopt her.

[¶ 2] The appellants argue...

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