James W. Cushing of the Law Office of Faye Riva Cohen James W. Cushing of the Law Office of Faye Riva Cohen

In the matter of In re Adoption of A.M.W., A Minor, Appeal of M.J.G., 2023 PA Super. 10 the Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled on an appeal from competing adoption petitions, and ultimately remanded the matter back to the trial court.

In this matter the mother was pregnant and gave birth to the child in December 2009 while she was in a relationship with M.J.G. The child's biological father was never in the child's life. The mother and M.J.G. were eventually married, but divorced in 2017. Thereafter, the mother married E.B. in 2019. In 2021, both M.J.G. and E.B. filed petitions to adopt the child.