Care and Protection of Lillith

How courts have described this case

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

• noting relevance of mother's failure to send child to school and her inability to understand negative effects of such failure on child
• remanding case for clarification of judge's findings of domestic violence occurring in front of child, where judge failed to assess credibility of witnesses' conflicting testimony
• discussing harm to children of witnessing or being victim of domestic abuse
• judge recited testimony but did not make findings indicating he had assessed credibility of witness
• mother's failure to send child to school and inability to understand negative effects of such failure were relevant factors in establishing unfitness
• appellate court may look to undisputed evidence of domestic violence when assessing judge's determination of parental fitness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).