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

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that substance abuse that impairs judgment such that visitors who pose a substantial risk of harm to children are permitted in a home can support a CINA finding
• rejecting parent’s argument that superior court failed to consider guardianship when court had observed that parent’s history of interfering with children’s foster placements rendered outright termination in children’s best interests
• finding children consistently absent or late to school, left for hours after school before being picked up, often “dirty and hungry,” and often left to take care of themselves due to mother’s substance abuse
• \The superior court was not required to consider the less drastic alternative of guardianship in a termination proceeding.\
• “The superior court was not required to consider the less drastic alternative of guardianship in a termination proceeding.”
• “The superior court was not required to consider the less drastic alternative of guardianship in a termination proceeding.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).