New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services v. R.G. and J.G. (069970)

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• concluding that father’s incarceration was not sufficient grounds to terminate his parental rights, in part, because of evidence that he maintained a bond with the child through letters and phone calls
• noting that incarceration, though alone insufficient grounds to terminate parental rights, is one among several factors a court may consider in a best interests analysis
• holding \incarceration alone is insufficient to prove parental unfitness or abandonment and terminate parental rights\
• recognizing the Division is \necessarily impeded by the difficulty and possible futility of providing services to an incarcerated person\
• explaining that in seeking to terminate parental rights, the State \should\ offer testimony from an expert who had the opportunity to evaluate the child's relationship with the child's birth parents and the child's foster parents
• finding the Division's position 30 A-3241-16T2 lacked support because \no bonding evaluation was conducted\

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