Benefit Services Corp. v. Fidelity Mutual Savings Bank

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the juvenile court erred by failing to consider the “totality of the circumstances related to the reasonableness of DHS’s reunification efforts”
• holding that the reasonableness of DHS’s efforts requires weighing “the extent to which the family might benefit” from a particular service against the burden of providing that service
• explaining that the “reasonableness of DHS’s efforts depends on the totality of circumstances of the parent and child”
• noting that to answer the question of “whether [ODHS’s] efforts have been reasonable[,] * * * a court must consider the totality of the circumstances”
• noting that to answer the question of “whether [ODHS’s] efforts have been reasonable[,] * * * a court must consider the totality of the circumstances”
• stating that “[s]everal of our cases highlight the importance of considering whether a parent is likely to ben- efit from a service”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).