Department of Human Services v. B. L. J.

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting DHS’s argument that, “even if the children will not be at risk in Bingham’s house, mother [and the children] might leave Bingham’s house,” because there was no evidence demonstrating “that it is reasonably likely that mother will leave her current supportive environment”
• “[T]here is no legal requirement that a parent be able to care for his or her children independently.”
• juvenile court erred in failing to consider fact that mother with cognitive deficits was living with family friend who could supervise her parenting
• juvenile court erred in asserting jurisdiction over children where the mother lived with family friends and required their assistance to safely parent
• “there is no legal requirement that a parent be able to care for his or her children independently”
• court erred in taking jurisdiction over child whose mother was unable to parent independently because of cognitive deficits, because mother was living with a family friend who could supervise her parenting

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).