A.H. v. State, Department of Health & Social Services

How courts have described this case

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• holding that failure to take medication to control mental illness placed children at a substantial risk of continued harm
• concluding that “[g]iven the significant needs of the children, their attachment to their foster mother, and [the biological father]’s failure to improve his behavior, substantial evidence exists to support the superior court’s best interests finding”
• affirming finding of likelihood of harm from custody based in part on children’s specific ages and circumstances
• affirming a termination of the father’s parental rights even though the mother’s rights had not been terminated after finding, “[h]ere, [in contrast to A.B.], the State petitioned to terminate the parental rights of both [parents], planning to free the children for adoption.”
• “[B]ecause witnessing domestic violence has a ‘devastating impact’ on children, domestic violence need not be directed toward the child (continued...

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).