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· 2/15/1921

City of Rochelle v. McConaughy

Citations

  • 296 Ill. 309
  • 129 N.E. 740

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that an appellate court, in reviewing the sufficiency of the evidence, cannot reweigh the evidence or judge the credibility of witnesses
  • affirming termination of parental rights based on findings that support the trial court’s conclusion that continuation of parent-child relationship posed a threat to well- being of child
  • affirming termination of parental rights based on mother’s lack of progress and insight
  • court should judge a parent’s fitness to care for her children at the time of the termination hearing, taking into consideration evidence of changed conditions, habitual patterns of conduct, and the parent’s response to services offered by DCS

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Judges: Dunn

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