Jbm v. Department of Children and Fam.

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that without an actual harm or injury “as a consequence of a parent’s alcohol or drug use, evidence that the parent has a drug or alcohol problem, standing alone, is insufficient to support a finding of dependency”
• requiring evidence that a parent's addiction to alcohol or drugs actually affects the parent's ability to care for the child in order to sustain a finding of dependency
• “if there is no evidence the child actually suffered harm or injury— physical, mental or emotional — as a consequence of a parent’s alcohol or drug use, evidence that the parent has a drug or alcohol problem, standing alone, is insufficient to support a finding of dependency”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).