Doe v. Baby Boy Roe

How courts have described this case

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

• 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).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Charleston County Department of Social Services v. Jackson
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2006-03-06· cited 78×
• Jones v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2005-03-21· cited 31×
• South Carolina Department of Social Services v. Janice C.
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2009-04-30· cited 23×
• Stinecipher v. Ballington
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2005-09-12· cited 20×
• South Carolina Department of Social Services v. Sims
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2004-06-14· cited 20×
• Peake v. South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2007-11-27· cited 12×
• Bradley v. Doe
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2007-07-06· cited 11×
• Department of Social Services v. Phillips
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2005-08-08· cited 10×
• South Carolina Department of Social Services v. Mother Ex Rel. Minor Child
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2007-09-18· cited 8×
• Doe v. Roe
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2008-06-05· cited 4×
• South Carolina Department of Social Services v. Truitt
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2004-10-11· cited 2×
• South Carolina Department of Social Services v. Roe
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2006-12-21· cited 2×
• SC DEPT. OF SOCIAL SERVICES v. Roe
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2006-12-21· cited 1×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Santosky v. Kramer
  Supreme Court· 1982-02-22· cited 9,761×
• Joiner Ex Rel. Rivas v. Rivas
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2000-08-15· cited 112×
• Hooper v. Rockwell
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1999-02-22· cited 91×
• Richland County Department of Social Services v. Earles
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1998-02-23· cited 39×
• Dorchester County Department of Social Services v. Miller
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1996-10-14· cited 27×
• South Carolina Department of Social Services v. Gamble
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1999-10-18· cited 9×
• South Carolina Department of Social Services v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2000-10-09· cited 8×
• South Carolina Department of Social Services v. Parker
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1999-06-21· cited 6×