Case Details
- Status
- Published
- Procedural Posture
- Appeal to Supreme Court from Court of Appeals decision; certiorari granted
Related Laws
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Outcome
Supreme Court reversed the Court of Appeals and reinstated the family court's order terminating the mother's parental rights and granting adoption of the child, finding the mother had willfully failed to visit the child.
Excerpt
This is an appeal from an order of the family court terminating a mother's parental rights to her daughter. The court of appeals reversed, finding the mother had not "wilfully failed to visit the child," the statutory ground for termination alleged in this case. We granted certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision. We reverse and reinstate the family court's order terminating parental rights and granting adoption of the Child.
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