In re Jaylah W.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding mother’s failure to attempt to fulfill the court’s conditions constituted a willful failure to visit
• finding a mother’s efforts to get an appointment for mental health counseling after the relevant four-month period to be “too little, too late”
• affirming termination of mother’s parental rights when children were removed due to mother’s “pattern of drug and alcohol abuse, violent and threatening behavior, and criminal activity[,]” and those conditions persisted at the time of trial
• “taking DCS’s assertion as true that clear and convincing evidence did not exist as to these two grounds, we reverse the trial court’s decision to terminate Mother’s rights based on these grounds” without opining on the merits, as DCS abandoned the issues on appeal
• “Mother’s [attempt to comply with the trial court’s order to regain visitation] c[a]me[] too late.”
• failure to visit was willful when order denying request for visitation contained clear directives as to how mother could regain visitation and “provided a mechanism” for doing so

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).