M.W. v. State, Department of Health & Social Services

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “it is in [the child’s] best interests to remain with her foster family because she had bonded to them” and removing her “would cause tremendous amount of anxiety”
• relying on affidavit of diligent inquiry specifying efforts included “checking phone books, utility applications, permanent fund dividend applications, and criminal records”
• affirming termination of parental rights where superior court found that DHSS's efforts to contact absent parent which included checking phone books, utility applications, permanent fund dividend applications, and criminal records, were reasonable efforts under statute
• finding it is within child’s “best interests to remain with her foster family because she had bonded to them,” rather than biological parent, “whom she had seen three times in one year”
• affirming termination of parental rights where superior court found that DHSS's efforts to contact absent parent which included checking phone books, utility applications, permanent fund dividend applications, and criminal records, were reasonable efforts under statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).