In Re Newman

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that termination was improper when the respondents required assistance to learn how to maintain their home suitable for habitation by the children, but they did not receive that assistance
• determining that although the respondent-parents were “less than ideal,” there was insufficient evidence to terminate their parental rights
• “We do not consider it appropriate to destroy a family’s relationship with five children if the major problem appears to be the parents’ inability to cope with one of them....”
• “We do not consider it appropriate to destroy a family’s relationship with five children if the major problem appears to be the parents’ inability to cope with one of them. . . .”
• “Respondents are less than ideal parents. But this is not a perfect world.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).