Legal Opinion
Guardianship of Jewel M.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided August 17, 2010No. Docket: Yor-10-230PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtAlexander, J.
[¶ 1] In this appeal we address, again, an issue that has recently arisen with some frequency: the quality of evidence that must be presented and standards of proof that must be met to remove a child from a parent’s care and custody through a guardianship proceeding. See 18-A M.R.S. § 5-204(c) (2009). For the second time, the father of Jewel M. appeals from a judgment of the York County Probate Court (Bailey, J.) granting the child’s maternal grandmother’s petition for a tempo rary guardianship, establishing the grandmother as Jewel’s temporary coguardian along with the father. See…
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