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Appeals Court Weighs Challenge to DCF Custody Finding, With Focus on Housing and Parental Insight
Summary
In an impounded child‑welfare appeal, counsel for the father argued the juvenile court improperly found him unfit by lumping the father's fitness with the mother’s substance issues and citing housing instability; the child’s lawyer and DCF urged affirmance of the trial court’s detailed findings.
The Appeals Court heard argument in a care‑and‑protection appeal in which the father and the child seek remand for a new trial or reconsideration of a permanent‑custody finding. Attorney Gary O’Brien, speaking for the father, said the trial court improperly aggregated mother’s substance‑use issues and housing…
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