A life-story record must be prepared in a bid to help ensure a four-year-old boy remembers his dying mother, a High Court judge has recommended. With no other family members available to look after her child, the woman is disputing a Northern Ireland Trust's opinion that adoption is in his best interests. She has voiced fears that her son's name would be changed and he may forget about her. In a preliminary ruling on efforts to secure a care order for the boy, who has developmental issues, Mr Justice O'Hara held that the Trust has met the threshold to proceed to a final hearing. He recognised that changing the name of the child - referred to as M - was more likely through adoption than...
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