In Re Involuntary Termination of Parental Rights of Santelia

CAVANAUGH, Judge:

This appeal was taken from an order involuntarily terminating the parental rights of appellant Geraldine Mae Santelia to her son. Our scope of review in such cases is limited, In re Adoption of J.S.M., Jr., 492 Pa. 313, 424 A.2d 878 (1981), but our examination of the record in the instant case convinces us that the petitioners failed to establish the existence of grounds for terminating appellant’s parental rights and that the lower court abused its discretion in holding to the contrary. 1 The order of the lower court is, therefore, reversed.

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