Legal Opinion
In Re Hope H.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided May 6, 1988PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NICHOLS, Justice.
The Respondent-father appeals from the judgment of the Cumberland County Probate Court upon the petition of the mother, terminating his parental rights to his eight-year-old daughter, Hope. He urges that on this record there is (1) insufficient evidence of his unwillingness or inability to take responsibility for the child within a time reasonably calculated to meet the child’s needs, and (2) insufficient evidence that the termination is in the child’s best interests, 22 M.R.S.A. § 4055(l)(B)(2)(a) and (l)(B)(2)(b)(ii) (Supp.1987).
Because we conclude that the mother has not…
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