First National Bank v. Worthen Bank & Trust Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a \finding of parental unfitness must be based on present circumstances\ (punctuation and footnote omitted)
• holding that a “finding of parental unfitness must be based on present circumstances” (punctuation and footnote omitted)
• noting as a positive in reversing the juvenile court’s termination order that the biological parents were “consistently involved in the process since [their] children were removed from their custody. . . .”
• while “courts may consider past conduct when determining whether deprivation is likely to continue,... a finding of parental unfitness must be based on present circumstances”
• past conduct, standing alone, is insufficient to show that a child is currently dependent and should be removed from the parent’s custody

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).