Hallock v. Inhabitants of the County

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming satisfaction of RCW 13.34.180(1)(d) because substantial evidence showed additional offers of services would be futile
• rejecting argument that termination was inappropriate where ongoing dependency could protect child by prohibiting contact with parent until parent \had healed her own problems.\
• “‘Where a parent has been unable to rehabilitate over a lengthy dependency period, a court is fully justified in finding termination in the child’s best interests rather than leaving [the child] in the limbo of foster care for an indefinite period.’” (internal quotation marks omitted
• futility applied to court- ordered services

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).