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· 7/1/2004

New Jersey DYFS v. SS

Citations

  • 855 A.2d 8
  • 372 N.J. Super. 13

How courts have described this case

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

  • requiring expert testimony where an infant was at risk of suffering harm based on an abusive parental relationship
  • explaining a court cannot assume emotional harm to a child in the absence of expert testimony
  • acknowledging that the scope of permissible disclosures is extensive
  • finding no abuse or neglect where, among other things, there was no evidence introduced \as a general matter\ of a \causal relationship between witnessing domestic violence and emotional distress in the young\
  • \we find . . . that harm [from domestic violence] cannot be presumed in the absence of evidence of its existence or potential\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Judges Stern, Lefelt and Payne

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