In Re the Appeal in Maricopa County Juvenile Action No. JS-6831

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• holding that despite abandonment there would be no benefit from a severance or harm from the continuation of the parent's rights when there was a potential for a deeper relationship with the parent
• noting that proof of a clear and convincing statutory ground for severance “must also show that [the] ground somehow deprives the parent of the ability to effectively care for the child.”
• finding the existence of a statutory ground for severance that negatively effects a child to be relevant to the best-interests analysis
• “In most cases, the presence of a statutory ground will have a negative effect on the children[,]” which supports a best interests finding.
• “In most cases, the presence of a statutory ground will have a negative effect on the child[.]”
• “In most cases, the presence of a statutory ground will have a negative effect on the children[,]” which supports a best interests finding.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).