Adoption of Mary

How courts have described this case

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• ongoing, repeated patterns of serious parental neglect and physical and sexual abuse
• judge must evaluate whether parent is able to assume the responsibilities required of a parent
• \due process requires that parents . . . 'have an opportunity effectively to rebut adverse allegations concerning child-rearing capabilities'\
• “Generally, issues not raised by a losing party in the trial court are not addressed on appeal, absent exceptional circumstances”
• parent's decision to continue relationship with violent or abusive partner bears on fitness because it indicates inability to protect children from future abuse
• lower court erred when it granted custody to father on findings that were three to seven years old and ignored evidence of mother's present fitness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).