James S. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security

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• stating that the juvenile court must find that the “child will benefit from termination of the relationship or that the child would be harmed by continuation of the parental relationship”
• noting that finding termination is in a child’s best interests requires “either that the child will benefit from the termination of the relationship or that the child would be harmed by continuation of the relationship.”
• affirming termination where prison sentence was 5.5 years and the \child does not know her father\
• noting reunification services “are not available in all severance situations” and the length of the parent’s sentence “cannot be remedied by reunification services”
• affirming severance when father and child were together for only six 3 Cf. also Benjamin H. v. Ariz. Dep't of Econ. Sec., 1 CA-JV 08-0104, 2008 WL 5066208, at , ¶ 10 (Ariz. App. Nov. 28, 2008) (mem. decision

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).