Domestic Relations – Termination Of Parental Rights – Mental Illness

By Deborah Elkins
Published: September 15, 2008

A mother’s failure to come to terms with her mental illness, according to expert testimony, impairs her ability to care for her child and the Court of Appeals upholds the trial court’s decision to terminate the mother’s parental rights. Upon the child’s birth, she tested positive for barbiturates and mother expressed a desire to kill the ...

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