New Jersey Division of Youth & Family Services v. P.P.

In this consolidated appeal the Appellate Division has reversed an August 8, 2002, trial court order terminating the parental rights of a mother, P.P., and father, S.P., as to their two minor daughters. The children, J.P. and B.P., had been eared for in separate households by their paternal and maternal grandmothers, E.P. and M.B., who wished to adopt them. The Appellate Division remanded the matter for a “current evaluation of the mother and father and a comparative bonding evaluation of the children.” The panel also required consideration of the Kinship Guardianship Act, N.J.S.A. 3B:12A-1…