Peters v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding nature of underlying crime and length of sentence are relevant factors, among others, in termination case involving incarcerated parent
• counseling courts to consider parents’ conduct prior to and during incarceration to evaluate extent of harm to child
• explaining evaluation of harm to a child requires consideration of a parent's conduct prior to and during incarceration
• finding the father's lengthy incarceration for committing a brutal first-degree murder \militates powerfully against his fitness as a parent.\
• explaining the inability of an incarcerated parent \to carry out many regular and ordinary parental duties . . . can be deleterious to the emotional and psychological condition of the children\
• emphasizing abandonment as a factor impacting a parent's unfitness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).