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Justices probe whether foster parents may remain in closed care-and-protection proceedings
Summary
The appeals court examined whether a foster parent’s statutory right to attend closed child-protection hearings may be limited after sequestration and whether the foster parent’s presence prejudiced the mother; the panel heard competing views on statutory text and trial-court discretion and took the case under advisement.
The panel considered a care-and-protection termination appeal in which counsel for the mother argued the presence of a foster parent in closed juvenile-court proceedings after a sequestration order prejudiced the mother’s visitation and altered the case trajectory. Counsel for the mother asked the appeals court to provide guidance or a standard…
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