Doug Y. v. State, Department of Health & Social Services, Office of Children's Services

How courts have described this case

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• holding that superior court \did not err in terminating parental rights and not establishing a guardianship\ because it \implicitly rejected the guardianship proposal\ in its best interests analysis
• noting that visitation is one factor that courts can consider when evaluating reasonable effort
• affirming OCS had made reasonable efforts despite no visitation and describing significant efforts to provide mental health and parenting assessments
• affirming termination in case where “[t]he superior court implicitly rejected the guardianship proposal”
• “The potential that Doug may one day be able to change is not sufficient to suggest, much less prove, that guardianship is in Damien’s best interest.”
• considering entirety of record in assessing reasonable efforts

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).