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Appeals court hears challenge to termination of parental rights; counsel dispute whether more time was warranted
Summary
The appeals court heard argument in Department of Children and Families v. Mother (docket 24P70) over whether the trial court abused its discretion when it terminated a mother's parental rights; counsel disputed whether the mother's progress in treatment justified more time.
A panel of the appeals court heard arguments in a child-protective appeal, Department of Children and Families v. Mother (docket 24P70), in which a mother challenged the trial court's termination of her parental rights.
Counsel for the mother, Lynn Eisenman, described recent progress: the mother had entered a residential treatment program as a condition of probation, had clean drug screens while in a zero-tolerance program, had full-time program requirements and, according to the program…
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