Baker v. Marion County Office of Family & Children

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the parents’ ineffective assistance of counsel claim to be “untenable” because there was no showing that they had a fundamentally unfair hearing
• noting that “[t]he resolution of a civil juvenile proceeding focuses on the best interests of the child, not on guilt or innocence as in a criminal proceed ing”
• declining to apply Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052 (1984), to assess counsel’s performance in cases involving termination of parental rights
• declining to apply Strickland to assess counsel’s performance in cases involving termination of parental rights
• “[W]e deem the focus of the inquiry to be whether it appears that the parents received a fundamentally fair trial whose facts demonstrate an accurate determination.”
• child cannot be made to “languish, forgotten, in custodial limbo for long periods of time without permanency”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).