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· 9/21/2015

In Re: Adoption of: G.L.L., a minor Appeal of CYF

Citations

  • 124 A.3d 344
  • 2015 Pa. Super. 200
  • 2015 Pa. Super. LEXIS 546
  • 2015 WL 5546996

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • noting that the Orphans’ court must analyze whether the relationship with the parents is “necessary and beneficial.”
  • noting that PACA is a purely voluntary agreement requiring the consent of the adoptive parents
  • reminding the trial court that “in termination matters, it must engage in a bifurcated analysis”
  • instructing courts to discern effect on child if parental rights were to be terminated, and to consider whether terminating parental rights would destroy an existing bond that is “necessary and beneficial” to the child
  • “Only after determining that the parent’s conduct warrants termination of his or her parental rights under section 2511(a
  • major aspect of section 2511(b) analysis is status of parent-child bond 3 Father did not preserve a challenge related to section 2511(b

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Lazarus, Stabile, Jenkins

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