C.T. v. Marion County Department of Child Services

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• holding that the doctrine of invited error provides that a party may not take advantage of an error that she commits or invites
• affirming termination of parental rights based on mother’s pattern of failing to address mental health deficiencies, long-standing addiction to drugs, and past and present inability to provide safe, stable, and nurturing home
• noting DCS need not rule out every possibility that a parent will not change his behavior; rather it need establish only that there is a reasonable probability that the parent will not do so
• quotation and Court of Appeals of Indiana | Memorandum Decision 18A-JT-3021 | May 30, 2019 Page 18 of 20 citation omitted
• “In failing to respond to his attorney’s letters or to communicate with his attorney prior to the termination hearing, despite his actual knowledge of the hearing, [Parent] has invited the alleged error of which he now complains.”

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