Bobby G. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that “neither § 8-533 nor federal law requires that a parent be provided reunification services before the court may terminate the parent’s rights on the ground of abandonment”
• recognizing that “neither § 8-533 nor federal law requires that a parent be provided reunification services before the court may terminate the parent’s rights on the ground of abandonment”
• stating that a parent need not “be provided reunification services before the court may terminate the parent’s rights on the ground of abandonment”
• holding the same principles that apply to statutory construction apply to procedural rules of the state supreme court
• deferring to juvenile court’s finding that father put forth “minimal at best” effort in maintaining relationship with child because “[t]he juvenile court, as the trier of fact in a termination proceeding, is in the best position to weigh the evidence” (citation omitted)
• “[N]either § 8-533 nor federal law requires that a parent be provided reunification services before the court may terminate the parent’s rights on ground of abandonment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).