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In re D.L.B.

Citations

  • 118 S.W.3d 360
  • 2003 Tenn. LEXIS 983

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the trial court may terminate parental rights on the basis of only one statutory ground
  • noting that trial courts should address all of the alleged grounds for termination to prevent delay in rendering a final decision
  • noting that trial courts should address all of the alleged grounds for termination to prevent delay in rendering a final decision
  • holding that “only a parent’s conduct in the four months immediately preceding the filing of a petition then before the court may be used as grounds to terminate parental rights under Tennessee Code Annotated section 36-1- 102(1)(A)(i)”
  • noting that the trial court is only required to find one statutory ground for terminating a parent’s rights
  • noting that the trial court is only required to find one statutory ground for terminating a parent’s rights

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Anderson, Barker, Birch, Drowota, Holder, III

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