No. 23-161

Megan Kathryn Sullivan v. Amanda Marie Seaton

Lower Court: Georgia
Docketed: 2023-08-18
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Experienced Counsel
Tags: 14th-amendment adoption child-custody due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment judicial-review parental-rights step-parent-adoption termination-of-rights
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2023-10-27
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does a State violate a fit mother's 14th Amendment due process rights?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED Does a State violate a fit mother's 14th Amendment due process rights if a trial court, without independent judgment, accepts verbatim a proposed order from the opposing party, resulting in a step-parent adoption and termination of the mother's rights, when the decision explicitly rests on "unclear" evidence and the mother's absence of meaningful contact with the child for a year—a situation intentionally and undisputedly orchestrated by the father and step-mother, who used all available means to prevent the mother from accessing the child?

Docket Entries

2023-10-30
Petition DENIED.
2023-10-04
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/27/2023.
2023-08-14
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 18, 2023)

Attorneys

Megan Kathryn Sullivan
Andrew RozynskiEisenberg & Baum, LLP, Petitioner
Andrew RozynskiEisenberg & Baum, LLP, Petitioner