Lee v. Rourk

How courts have described this case

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

• stating, a trial court “should actually consider [a prospective] adoptive parent’s intent to adopt and not merely accept [an] adoption averment on its face”
• stating, “the Legislature intended the petition for involuntary termination of parental rights to be available solely as an aid to adoption”
• stating, “[t]he attendant plan for adoption serves the primary goal of the Adoption Act by placing the child in a ‘new parent-child relationship’ with the adoptive parent(s)”
• stating, “[s]trict compliance with the Adoption Act is a prerequisite to the court's jurisdiction to hear a petition to terminate parental rights in connection with a proposed adoption”
• stating, “[e]ven when a Section 2512(a)(1) petition might satisfy the statutory requirements for termination [pursuant to Section 2511], a [trial] court still cannot grant the petition without a corresponding plan for an anticipated adoption of the child”
• petition to terminate natural parent’s rights filed by other natural parent under section 2512(a)(1) cognizable only if adoption of child foreseeable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).