Bester v. Lake County Office of Family & Children

How courts have described this case

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• holding that if the court finds that the parent would not remedy the conditions for removal, there is no need to prove the other element
• holding that “a parent’s habitual pattern of conduct” is a relevant consideration in determining whether that parent’s rights should be terminated
• stating that trial court is vested with responsibility of resolving conflicting testimony and an appellate court may not reweigh the evidence or judge witness credibility
• observing that under the prior version of the statute DCS was required to prove either of the two factors, not both
• stating that trial court is vested with responsibility of resolving conflicting testimony and an appellate court may not reweigh the evidence or judge witness credibility
• observing that under the prior version of the statute DCS was required to prove either of the two factors, not both

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).