In Re Jonathan G.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing child's right in some circumstances to continued association with foster parents
• recognizing child’s right in some circumstances to continued association with foster parents
• stating that statutory right of party or parties having custody of child to meaningful opportunity to be heard in abuse and neglect proceeding, including opportunity to testify and present and cross-examine witnesses
• replacing the Department—in just the one case—with an outside entity because the Department refused to obey the “court’s repeated directive to develop and follow a case plan for the purpose of reunifying” the family
• upholding a decision by a circuit court to dismiss an abuse and neglect petition and reunify a child with a parent who acknowledged abuse, where the natural parents had cooperated with therapeutic intervention that was ultimately deemed beneficial
• providing circuit court retains exclusive jurisdiction over any subsequent requests for modification

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).