In the Interest of N. Q.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that a juvenile court abuses its discretion if its ruling “‘does not logically follow from the findings upon which it supposedly rests or has no reasonable relationship to its announced objective.’”
• acknowledging that there is an “interesting interplay between the parent’s right to parent and the child’s best interests[,]” and explaining that “[i]n balancing fairness to the parent and fulfilling the needs of the child, the child prevails”
• “A critical factor in determining what is in the best interest of a child is the desire for permanence in the child’s life,”
• court can terminate parental rights while permanency plan is on appeal because statute authorizes court to rule on TPR petition within 180 days of its filing
• “[T]he focus of the inquiry [in contested adoption and TPR cases] into the child’s best interest—even with the parental presumption in place—must be on the child, not the parent.”
• ”[T]he focus of the inquiry [in contested adoption and TPR cases] into the child’s best interest—even with the parental presumption in place—must be on the child, not the parent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).