Legal Opinion
In Re Leona T.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided June 15, 1992PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COLLINS, Justice.
The Maine Department of Human Services (“DHS”) appeals from an order of the District Court (Springvale, Crowley, J.) denying its request to terminate the parental rights of Leona T.’s natural father, Leo T. Finding no error in the decision, we affirm.
In May, 1991, DHS filed a petition for termination of Leo T.’s parental rights and notified Leo. Leona had been placed in DHS custody in April, 1988 when she was only six days old. Throughout that time, the Court had been monitoring her relationship with her parents through child protection orders. The orders allowed Leona’s…
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