In Re the Welfare of P.J.K.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that courts may look to a parent’s “actual condition” and not simply “conduct” to determine whether a parent is unfit
• affirming TPR where father had permanent mental retardation, was combative, children responded negatively toward him, he failed to complete his case plan, he could not hold down a job, and he went missing
• affirming termination of low-intellect father’s parental rights to his special-needs children when “father could not grasp even the most basic parenting skills” and “[w]hat appearances the father has made in the children’s lives has produced trauma”
• “[N]owhere in the statute is imminent adoption an element of a termination proceeding.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).