In re Child of Nicholas G.
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In this appeal from a family matter judgment after a judicial review hearing in a child protection matter the Supreme Judicial Court dismissed the appeal from the child protection matter and affirmed the judgment in the family matter, holding that the issue raised in the child protection matter was not properly raised and that there was no error or abuse of discretion in the family matter.
The district court dismissed the child protection matter, opened a family matter, and entered an order in the family matter that gave sole parental rights and responsibilities to Mother and denied rights of contact to Father. The Supreme Judicial Court held (1) because the entry of the family matter judgment was appealable only pursuant to Me. Rev. Stat. 19-A, 104, Father improperly raised his issue in a Me. Rev. Stat. 22, 4006, 4038 appeal; (2) when a party appeals from a family matter judgment entered as a result of an unappealable judicial review hearing in a child protection matter, the right to counsel does not extend to the appeal from the family matter judgment; and (3) the court did not err in denying Father’s motion to testify by video link or in denying Father’s request for rights of contact with the child.
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