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Judge Orders Department to Seek Termination, Changes Permanency Goal to Adoption
Summary
Lenawee County Probate & Juvenile Court authorized a change of permanency goal to adoption and directed the Department of Social Services to file a petition to terminate parental rights for the child in this case; the father said he intends to sign a release and the child’s tribal enrollment was confirmed.
A judge in the Lenawee County Probate & Juvenile Court ordered the Department of Social Services on the record to file a petition to terminate the parental rights of the child’s mother and changed the child’s permanency goal to adoption, the court said near the close of a permanency review hearing. The judge set the next permanency planning hearing for April 21 at 2:30 p.m., and directed staff to prepare release documents for the child’s father.
The Department’s caseworker, Francesca Madrid, told the court, “We are asking for the goal to be changed to adoption.” Madrid said the child is placed with a foster family that is willing to provide permanency through adoption and that the child is doing well in that home.
The court’s action followed testimony from the child’s guardian ad litem, Carson Howlett, who described a December 20, 2024, office visit in which the child appeared bonded to…
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