In Re Rosalie H.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that DCYF does not have the burden of “holding the hand of a recalcitrant parent”
• finding that parents’ “wholesale rejection of the services provided to them, while their children were in DCYF custody for over two years, demonstrated that [parents] exalted their own interests over those of their children”
• rejecting parents’ argument that participating in DCYF case plans would subject them to criminal liability and holding that trial justice did not infringe upon parents’ right against self-incrimination
• “Absent a finding of unfitness, the natural parent’s right to bear and raise their child in a less than perfect way remains superior to the rights of foster parents who may be exemplary nurturers.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).