Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States v. Shearer

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the trial court is “required to explicitly address each child’s placement with relatives at the time of the termination hearing”
• holding that the trial court clearly erred when it failed to consider whether termination was in the best interests of the children when some children were placed with relatives while other children were placed in non-relative foster care
• finding that respondents’ failure to derive any lasting benefits from the services provided to her weighed in favor of termination
• holding a court’s failure to address the child’s placement with a relative is clear error requiring the best-interest finding to be vacated
• finding that respondents’ failure to derive any lasting benefits from the services provided to her weighed in favor of termination
• finding that respondents’ failure to derive any lasting benefits from the services provided to her weighed in favor of termination

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).