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Court confirms emergency removal; child to remain with fictive kin while paternity test proceeds
Summary
A Lenawee County Probate & Juvenile Court jurist confirmed an earlier emergency removal and left the child placed with a fictive kin pending DNA results to determine paternity; the court set a pretrial for Feb. 18 and instructed the department to file an amended petition if paternity is established.
A Lenawee County Probate & Juvenile Court jurist on an emergency-removal case confirmed the removal order and said the child will remain placed with a fictive kin while DNA testing to determine paternity is pending.
The hearing record shows the child’s mother has died. Chelsea Pelham of CPS testified that the department served the petition and provided a death certificate, that the maternal grandmother and aunt declined placement and recommended placement with Anderson Morgan, and that Pelham had evaluated Morgan’s home and found no background-check problems. Sasha Thomas, counsel for the department, asked the court to…
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