Akers v. Fauquier County Department of 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 social services “did not have to afford appellant services after the goal was changed to adoption”
• relying on a child “flourishing” in foster care in holding that terminating parental rights was in the child’s best interests
• finding it was in the child’s best interests to terminate parental rights under Code § 16.1-283(C)(2) where “evidence showed appellant had a longstanding fight with alcoholism,” the child did not want to return home, and the child was “flourishing” in the foster home
• “The best interests of the child are to be determined at the time of the termination hearing.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).