In Re Child M.

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• noting that testimony of a child’s statements to other people is admissible to establish the child’s state of mind at the time
• the Superior Court will not scour the record on an appellant’s behalf trying to find mistakes by the trial court. It is the appellant’s responsibility to precisely identify any purported errors
• Superior Court will not scour record on appellant’s behalf trying to find mistakes by trial court
• “[T]he ‘argument’ section of an appellate brief must contain a full discussion of the points raised accompanied by citation to pertinent authority.”
• there is no law which “would entitle a natural parent to force an abused child to testify in an involuntary termination proceeding”
• the Superior Court will not scour the record on an appellant's behalf trying to find mistakes by the trial court. It is the appellant's responsibility to precisely identify any purported errors

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).