Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary
Guardianship — Termination of parental rights — Exceptional circumstances
Petitions for Guardianship with the Right to Consent to Adoption or Long-Term Care Short of Adoption and termination of parental rights (“TPR”) proceedings, seeking to terminate appellants’ parental rights of their three biological children, in Cases No. T15314016, T15314015 and T15314014 were filed in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, sitting as a juvenile court. After a hearing on May 16, 2016 and June 24, 2016, the court (J. Copeland), on July 6, 2016, granted the petitions, thereby terminating appellants’ parental rights to all three children, based on the court’s determination that exceptional circumstances made the continuation of the parent-child relationship detrimental to each child’s best interests. Appellants filed the instant appeal, in which they ask that we review the following questions, which we quote:
1. Did the trial court err in terminating parental rights?
2. Did the trial court err in failing to place the children with biological relatives?
