Domestic Relations – Termination Of Parental Rights – Psychiatric Patient Parents 
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Published: May 24, 2010
Tags: Domestic Relations, Per Curiam Opinion, Virginia Court of Appeals
A mother who suffers from chronic mental illness and who has been hospitalized at mental institutions 14 times, including seven times since her child’s birth in 2007, loses her parental rights in this case from the Court of Appeals.
Mother argues her main obstacle preventing her from caring for her child was her noncompliance with taking ...
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