ADOPTION BY JESSICA M.

Docket: And-19-491.

239 A.3d 633 (2020)

2020 ME 118

ADOPTION BY JESSICA M. et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: October 6, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rory A. McNamara, Esq. (orally), Drake Law, LLC, Berwick, for appellant father.

Matthew P. Mastrogiacomo, Esq. (orally), The Mastrogiacomo Law Office, PA, Lewiston, for appellant mother.

Molly Watson Shukie, Esq. (orally), and Jeffrey A. Schwartz, Esq. , Linnell, Choate, & Webber LLP, Auburn, for maternal aunt and uncle.

Kristina Dougherty, Esq., amicus curiae pro se.

Lauren Wille, Esq. , Disability Rights Maine, Augusta, for amicus curiae Disability Rights Maine.

Panel: MEAD, GORMAN, JABAR, HUMPHREY, HORTON, and, CONNORS, JJ.


[¶1] The parents of a child appeal from a judgment of the Androscoggin County Probate Court (Dubois, J.) terminating their parental rights in anticipation of adoption pursuant to 18-A M.R.S. § 9-204 (2017), on the petition of the child's maternal aunt and uncle.1 Both parents challenge the sufficiency...

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