Opinion ID: 1288098
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 7

Heading: timeline of significant occurrences

Text: 12-8-07 B.G.C. born testing positive for cocaine & oxycodone. 12-11-07 Abuse & neglect [A & N] petition filed. 12-13-07 DHHR granted legal custody of B.G.C.; GAL appointed for B.G.C. 12-24-07 B.G.C. placed in foster home of Petitioners after discharge from hospital. 1-24-08 GAL filed a Motion to Order DHHR to Remove Child from Physical Placement in Homosexual Home & Other Injunctive Relief. 10-28-08 MDT meeting held and report issued finding adoption of the child as the acceptable disposition; report reflects DHHR Adoption Supervisor informed MDT members that, although she must `ensure that [B.G.C.] is doing well in her present placement, there would be no reason for the Adoption Unit to move her due to family members and siblings being previously ruled out. The report goes on to say that the supervisor further stated that the Adoption Unit would be reluctant to `uproot' a child from the only home she knows. 10-31-08 Date on which DHHR placed seventh child in Petitioner's home [a foster home's maximum capacity is set at 5 or 6 foster children]. 11-5-08 Order terminating parental rights of B.G.C.'s mother; the parental rights of both the mother and unknown father were terminated at a dispositional hearing held on October 8, 2008. 11-6-08 Permanency hearing in A & N case [DHHR recommends adoption]. 11-12-08 First order of removal entered [directing that child be transitioned to a traditional home within two weeks]. 11-17-08 Foster parents (Petitioners)file petition for writ of prohibition in Supreme Court. 11-18-08 Circuit court order staying the November 12, 2008, order of removal. 11-21-08 Resumption of permanency hearing, including consideration of GAL motion to remove the child from the homosexual home. At the conclusion of the hearing the lower court ordered DHHR to remove B.G.C. from Petitioners' home by noon the following day (November 22, 2008), and continue foster care placement of the child in the home of a prospective adoptive married couple identified during the hearing. [Petitioners complied with the order and B.G.C. was delivered with her belongings to the prospective adoptive home on November 22.] 11-24-08 Motion to Supreme Court for emergency stay. 11-26-08 Prospective adoptive married couple informed DHHR they would not adopt B.G.C. The child was returned to Petitioners' home later in the day after the motion for the emergency stay was granted by this Court. 12-2-08 Second order of removal memorializing hearing of November 21, 2008, entered. The order directed DHHR to move the child from Petitioners' home because Petitioners were not eligible to adopt the child together under the adoption statute and the number of foster children in Petitioners' home was over the capacity limit. Lower court iterated in this order that it was most appropriate to B.G.C.'s best interests to be placed in a traditional home with a married mother and father pending the adoption process. 12-9-08 Supreme Court Order granting petition.