MJW v. Department of Children and Families

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that without proper service of process upon a defendant in a termination proceeding, “the court lacks personal jurisdiction over the defendant”
• reiterating that object and purpose of service of process is to give notice of proceedings to opposing party so that she may be given opportunity to defend suit

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).