In Re: K.H.B., Appeal of: Office of C.Y.F. (concurring)
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J-A29030-14 2014 PA Super 284 IN RE: K.H.B., A/K/A BABY GIRL J., A/K/A K.J., A MINOR : : : : APPEAL OF: ALLEGHENY COUNTY OFFICE : OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES : IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA No. 731 WDA 2014 Appeal from the Order entered April 7, 2014 in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Civil Division, at No(s): TPR 172 of 2013 IN RE: K.H.B., A/K/A BABY GIRL J., A/K/A K.J., A MINOR : : : : APPEAL OF: ALLEGHENY COUNTY OFFICE : OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES : IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA No. 732 WDA 2014 Appeal from the Orders entered April 7, 2014 in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Orphans’ Court, at No(s): TPR 172 of 2013 BEFORE: FORD ELLIOTT, P.J.E., ALLEN, and STRASSBURGER,* J. CONCURRING OPINION BY STRASSBURGER, J.: FILED DECEMBER 23, 2014 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 *Retired Senior Judge assigned to the Superior Court. J-A29030-14 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. -2-
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