Keller v. City of St. Petersburg

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “incarceration alone is not an explicit basis upon which an involuntary termination may be ordered pursuant to [s]ection 2511”
• stating that a court must determine “whether the [incarcerated] parent has utilized those resources at his or her command while in prison to continue and pursue a close relationship with the child” (citation omitted)
• stating that when reviewing a trial court’s goal-change determination, an appellate court must defer to the discretion of the trial court and the trial court must be guided by the best interests of the child when making that determination
• the court “must inquire whether the parent has utilized those resources at his or her command while in prison to continue and pursue a close relationship with the child”
• the record showed the father was complying with all of the goals of his family service plan and that he had been the primary caretaker of the children before his incarceration
• child’s best interests guide the court in a goal change

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).