The Court of Appeals affirms termination of mother’s parental rights to children who came into foster care suffering from abuse and neglect, including tooth decay, psychotic behaviors and lack of immunizations. Although mother completed a psychological evaluation, she missed several ...

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The Court of Appeals affirms termination of father’s parental rights to children who came into foster care suffering from abuse and neglect, including tooth decay, psychotic behaviors and lack of immunizations. The children have been thriving in foster care. They ...

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A mother and father cannot overturn termination of their parental rights to six of their children who were removed from their custody when the family was homeless, because of father’s anger issues and domestic violence directed toward the children; the ...

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A mother who was charged with physically abusing and neglecting her two small children, convicted of malicious shooting into an occupied dwelling and who failed to correct conditions that prompted foster placement of the two children over a four-year period, ...

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A wife could not reopen her divorce proceeding to pursue the $1.85 million proceeds of a loan her ex-husband’s company made to his business partner. An account receivable owed to a company in which he held an interest was not ...

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A mother whose four children were placed in foster care after the mother sexually abused the oldest child, and who sporadically attended supervised visitation, did not complete sexual offender treatment, did not follow through with a parenting capacity evaluation and ...

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In construing a property settlement agreement that covered assets owned by the parties subject to equitable distribution, a trial court erred in granting wife an ED award from an account receivable owed to a corporation in which husband had a ...

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The Court of Appeals upholds termination of parental rights for a father who was incarcerated or detained the entire time his children were in foster care, including sentences for rape of a minor, grand larceny and burglary. Because we conclude ...

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A father was unable to provide for the daily needs of his six-year-old son but left his care to the mother, who was mentally ill and had attempted suicide, and the Court of Appeals upholds termination of the father’s parental ...

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Due to appellant husband’s multiple procedural defaults, the Court of Appeals is precluded from reviewing several of his claims of error in challenging the trial court’s interpretation of the parties’ property settlement agreement, but it reverses the trial court’s award ...

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