Opinion
No. 640 MAL 2020
01-07-2021
IN RE: ADOPTION OF: C.M., a Minor Petition of: B.M., Mother and D.M. and P.M., Maternal Grandparents
ORDER
PER CURIAM.
AND NOW, this 7th day of January, 2021, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED. The issues, rephrased for clarity, are:
(1) Whether the Superior Court, in reversing an order granting the involuntary termination of parental rights where the petitioners did not seek a good cause exception pursuant to 23 Pa.C.S. § 2901, erred by misapprehending and improperly applying the essential holding in the Supreme Court case of In Re: Adoption of M.R.D., 636 Pa. 509, 145 A.3d 1117 (2016).
(2) Whether the Superior Court improperly disturbed the factual and credibility findings of the trial court in a termination of parental rights proceeding to conclude the proposed adoption was unlawful "custody gamesmanship."