IN RE: S.C.B., A MINOR IN RE: J.G.B., A MINOR APPEAL OF: C.B.

IN RE: S.C.B., A MINOR IN RE: J.G.B., A MINOR APPEAL OF: C.B. No. 840 and 841 WDA 2009 2010 PA Super 20 Atlantic: n/a Filed: 2/17/2010
	Appeal from the Order Entered April 21, 2009, Court of Common Pleas, Allegheny County, Orphans’ Court Division, at No. CYF 261 of 2007 and CYF 260 of 2007.
Before: BENDER, SHOGAN and FITZGERALD?, JJ.
Opinion by: SHOGAN, J.
C.B., (“Mother”), appeals from the orders entered on April 21, 2009, granting the petitions filed by the Allegheny County Office of Children, Youth and Families (“CYF”), to involuntarily terminate her parental rights to her twin minor children, S.C.B. and J.G.B., (collectively, “Children”), pursuant to the Adoption Act, 23 Pa.C.S.A. § 2511(a)(1), (2), (5), and (8), and (b). In this appeal, Mother challenges, inter alia, the allowance of the termination of parental rights hearing to proceed in the absence of her guardian ad litem. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

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