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Judge keeps child with relative placement, sets 90-day review in Cody Gage case
Summary
At a Lenawee County Probate & Juvenile Court review hearing, a judge found reasonable efforts toward reunification but left the child in kin placement and scheduled a 90-day review and permanency-planning hearing for April 15 at 10 a.m.
A presiding judge at the Lenawee County Probate & Juvenile Court ordered that the child of Cody Gage remain in a relative placement and scheduled a 90-day review and permanency-planning hearing for April 15 at 10 a.m., after hearing updates on the father's compliance with his case service plan.
Diane Burgess, a department caseworker, told the court the child was "doing very well where he's at" and that "all of his needs are being met." Burgess said the child is placed with his former stepmother, whom the child calls "mom," and that the placement is functioning as a kin placement the child is familiar with.
The court heard updates that the father, Cody Gage, was released from jail in late November (described by participants as the day before Thanksgiving), has…
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