Guardianship of B.M. CA1/2
After G.M. (Father), was arrested in 2013 on multiple charges including possession of drugs for sale, being a felon in possession of a firearm and willful cruelty to a child, he agreed that his sister A.A. and her husband D.A. (Guardians) would be guardians of his child B.M. (Minor), then four years old. Father was sentenced to a year in prison, and after his release, Guardians petitioned in October 2015 to terminate his parental rights so they could adopt Minor. Father, who had a long history of drug and alcohol abuse, was hopeful that before March or April 2016 he would be at a point in his recovery where he could seek to terminate the guardianship, and opposed the petition. But as late as July 2016, more than two years after the guardianship began, and less than a month after a positive drug test, Father conceded that it would be at least several more months, and perhaps a year, before he was prepared to take custody of Minor.
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