Felton v. Stephenson

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• noting that where mother was party to initial disposition hearing and stipulated to State custody, she could not complain at eighteen-month review hearing “that no finding of unfitness was made regarding her”
• “The parental unfitness test must be met before [state] can initially be awarded custody of a child.”
• “The parental unfitness test must be met before [DCF] can initially be awarded custody of a child.”
• mother bound to stipulation giving custody to SRS that was made at initial disposition hearing
• parental unfitness test must be met before SRS can be awarded custody of a child; where mother had stipulated to SRS custody, she could not later complain that she had never been found to be unfit
• parental unfitness test must be met before SRS can be awarded custody of a child; where mother had stipulated to SRS custody, she could not later complain that she had never been found to be unfit

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).