In Re Tayler F.

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• applying plenary review to question of whether trial court applied proper standard and procedures in making discretionary determination
• creating special proce- dures for hearsay testimony of child witnesses pursuant to which trial court properly may conclude that child is unavailable if there is competent evidence that child will suffer psychological harm from testifying
• right to confrontation and cross-examination in civil action grounded in due process clauses of fifth and fourteenth amendments
• right to confrontation and cross-examination in civil action is grounded in due process clauses of fifth and fourteenth amendments
• “[W]e conclude that a trial court properly may conclude that a child is unavailable if there is competent evidence that the child will suffer psychological harm from testifying.”
• ‘‘[a] due process violation exists only when a claimant is able to establish that he or she was denied a specific procedural protection to which he or she was entitled’’ (internal quotation marks omitted)

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