Guardianship — Parental rights — Reunification efforts This appeal arises from a decision by the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, sitting as a juvenile court, terminating the parental rights of Ms. B. to her daughter C.B. and granting guardianship ...

Children — Adoption — Permanency plan This appeal arises from a decision of the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, sitting as a juvenile court, to change the permanency plans for two children, J.C., born in February 2021, and D.J., born ...

Guardianship — Parental rights — Reunification March 8, 2023, the Baltimore City Department of Social Services filed Petitions for Guardianship with the Right to Consent to Adoption or Long Term Care Short of Adoption for two minor children, Sk. M. ...

Guardianship — Parental rights — Efforts to promote reunification Appellant, C.M. (“Mother”), challenges a judgment of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, sitting as a juvenile court, which terminated her parental rights with respect to one of her children, S.W., ...

Guardianship — Abuse of discretion — Parental rights On August 5, 2021, the Prince George’s County Department of Social Services (“DSS”), filed in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, sitting as a juvenile court, a Petition for Guardianship with ...

Guardianship — Parental rights — Best interests of child On May 15, 2023, after a twelve-day guardianship hearing, the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, sitting as a juvenile court, granted a petition filed by the Department of Social Services (“DSS”) ...

Guardianship — Parental rights — Exceptional circumstances On December 15, 2020, Appellee, the Baltimore City Department of Social Services, filed a petition in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City seeking guardianship of Appellee child L.D. with the right to consent ...

Guardianship — Parental rights — Permanency plan Appellant, L.B. (“Father”), appeals from an order of the Circuit Court for Howard County, sitting as a juvenile court, granting the petitions of the Howard County Department of Social Services (“DSS” or “the ...

Foster care — Access to records — Protective order Mark Welborn, appellant, lived in a foster home in Baltimore County beginning in the late 1960’s. As an adult, appellant began to seek records from his foster care placement. Read the ...

Guardianship — Permanency plan — Non-relative This case arises from a decision by the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, Division of Juvenile Causes (“the juvenile court” or “the court”), to change the permanency plans for four of the children of ...