Karrie B. Ex Rel. Reep v. CATHERINE J.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that superior court did not err when considering mother-child bond as part of its analysis of “best interests” of children
• holding lack of permanent placement may be a factor in deciding whether termination would be in the child's best interests
• concluding it was proper to consider a parent’s professed intent to change when declining to terminate parental rights
• holding lack of permanent placement may be a factor in deciding whether termination would be in the child’s best interests
• noting mother’s substance abuse pattern “of apparent improvement and then devastating relapse”
• “[A] court may consider favorable present placements as a factor in a best interests analysis.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).