In Re Adoption of Atencio

OPINION

ZAPPALA, Justice.

This appeal raises the issue of whether the Superior Court applied an incorrect standard of review when it vacated the Final Decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County which denied Appellees’ Petition for Involuntary Termination of Appellant’s parental rights.

Appellant, Dante E. Atencio, and Appellee, Barbara J. Landis, were married in September 1975, and lived in California with their two children, Emiliano and Gregory. The parties separated on June 26,1985, when the children were six and seven years old. Unbeknownst to Atencio, Landis was eight or ten…