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Appeals court hears challenge to trial court finding father unfit in DCF custody case
Summary
Counsel for the father argued the trial judge erred in weighing credibility and inferences about domestic violence; the Department of Children and Families urged affirmance, citing 146 subsidiary findings and continuing protective oversight in Michigan.
At the appeals hearing in case 24p868, Jeremy Robin argued for the father appellant that the trial judge erred when she found father unfit and yet found the mother fit; Robin emphasized constitutional parental-rights precedent and said the judge gave excessive weight to credibility findings and uneven weight to services the parents completed. Robin told the panel the father engaged in multiple services (parenting classes, paternity establishment), moved to improved housing, and contends the trial record does not support the judge’s adverse credibility findings about the father.
Richard Salcedo, representing the Department…
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