In the Interest of Adkins

How courts have described this case

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• holding that court adjudicating termination action may take judicial notice of the underlying prior proceeding involving the subject child or children
• recognizing that a court at a termination-of-parental-rights hearing may take judicial notice of the underlying prior adjudication because the prior proceeding and the termination proceeding are not separate, but are \interdependent and interwoven\
• recognizing CINA and termination proceedings “are not separate and distinct actions, but are interdependent and interwoven”
• noting the burden of proof problem created by the standard mandated in § 232.114(5)(c) vis-a-vis that of § 232.102(6)
• allowing judicial notice of a prior child in need of assistance case, “including the evidence, providing certain safeguards are followed”
• permitting the juvenile court in a termination proceeding to take judicial notice of the evidence in the underlying CINA file

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).