Dale H. v. State, Department of Health & Social Services

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “[i]n evaluating whether OCS met its active efforts burden, the superior court may consider a parent’s demonstrated lack of willingness to participate in treatment”
• noting that though the state failed to provide remedial services during certain brief periods, it made active efforts “over the case as a whole”
• affirming finding that father’s failure to comply with urinalyses or state-approved domestic violence courses in case plan relevant to abandonment finding
• affirming finding that father failed to remedy abandonment by not taking any case plan steps
• affirming a finding of abandonment when father failed to “even minimally participate[ ] in large portions of his case plan for over a year”
• taking notice of judgment involving crime of domestic violence, where judgment \is not part of the appellate record\ but \is not subject to reasonable dispute and is capable of ready determination\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).