People v. K.M.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that notice to counsel was a reasonable means of providing notice to the mother
• holding that where there was sufficient evidence to support parental unfitness on one statutory ground, the reviewing court - 22 - 1-18-1414 “need not address the issue of whether the State met its burden of proving the other grounds alleged in the petition.”
• finding the trial court did not err in denying a motion for continuance where the respondent knew the date of the hearing, a caseworker contacted her on the day of the hearing and offered her a ride, and the respondent’s attorney represented her at the hearing in her absence
• no due process violation when mother had notice of hearing and failed to appear and was represented by counsel at the hearing
• neither the respondent nor her attorney claimed the respondent did not receive notice, and she did nothing to explain her absence
• “a finding of parental unfitness may be based on evidence sufficient to support any one statutory ground” (emphasis in original)

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