Legal Opinion

Guardianship of Hailey M.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided May 26, 2016No. Docket Cum-15-461PublishedCited by 25 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtSaufley, C.J.

[¶ 1] The mother of sixteen-year-old Hailey M. 1 appeals from a judgment entered by the Cumberland County Probate Court (Mazziotti, J.) granting Hailey’s paternal grandparents’ petition for guardianship. The mother challenges the court’s findings- and argues that the award of full guardianship — rather than a limited guardianship — to the paternal grandparents, with no arrangement for transition back into the mother’s home, unreasonably infringed on her fundamental right to parent; her daughter in violation of her substantive due process- .rights. We affirm the judgment.

I. BACKGROUND

[¶ 2] In…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. In re Thomas H.Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · 2005
  2. In re A.M.Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · 2012
  3. Matthew W. Pitts v. Amanda M. MooreSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 2014
  4. John Doe I v. Robert WilliamsSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 2013
  5. Conlogue v. ConlogueSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 2006

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3Cited by25 opinions

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  2. In re Logan M.Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · 2017
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  4. Adoption of Isabelle T.Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · 2017
  5. In re Kenneth S.Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · 2017

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