The petitioner’s parental rights as a non-surrendering parent under the Safe Delivery of Newborns Law because the petitioner’s divorce complaint constituted a timely petition for custody.

The Michigan SCT has directed that, when finalizing adoptions, trial courts must use specific language on the record, indicating that no appeal is pending in the underlying TPR case.

A parent in a former same-sex relationship challenged the other parent’s custodial rights by arguing that the probate court who granted the adoption lacked subject matter jurisdiction because it was same-sex adoption.