In Re Adoption/Guardianship of Alonza D.

BATTAGLIA, Judge.

In the present case, involving termination of parental rights, we are called upon to address one question on certiorari, that being:

Where petitioner’s sons were involuntary taken from his custody and, over his objections, were kept in the custody of a third party for six years, was it error for the lower court to find that this period of separation between father and sons, and the commensurate bonding between the children and the foster mother, was an exceptional circumstance sufficient to overcome the presumption that it is in the best interests of the children to preserve…