Court Opinion

ID: 9805405
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 17:53:50.883288+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T10:45:04.500050
License: Public Domain

CONCURRING OPINION BY
STRASSBURGER, J.:
I agree that the trial court’s decision not to terminate the parental rights of Mother and Father under the facts of this case was reversible error for the reasons stated in the Majority’s analysis of CYF’s first question on appeal.
However, I do not join the Majority’s disposition of CYF’s second question regarding post-adoption contact agreements. I do not read the cited provisions of the Adoption Act to preclude the conditioning of termination of parental rights upon an agreement for continuing contact between a child and his or her biological parents. While the facts of the instant case do not warrant it, I am not prepared to say that a trial judge may never utilize such a condition if it serves the best interests of the child.