Doe v. Baby Boy Roe

How courts have described this case

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• holding that parental rights can be terminated once a child has languished in foster care for fifteen out of the last twenty-two months and the family court finds termination is in the child’s best interest
• finding that the ground of fifteen out of the last twenty-two months alone was sufficient to terminate Mother’s parental rights when termination was in child’s best interest
• stating once the appellate court finds a statutory ground on which the family court properly granted TPR, the court need only determine TPR was in the child's best interest to affirm
• “TPR statutes must be liberally construed in order to ensure prompt judicial procedures for freeing minor children from the custody and control of their parents by terminating the parent-child relationship.”
• “[O]nce a child has been in foster care for fifteen months, whether those months are consecutive or within the last twenty-two months, the parental rights of that child’s parents may be terminated upon a showing that termination is in the child’s best interests.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).