Raymond F. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that a parent’s “temporary abstinence from drugs and alcohol does not outweigh [her] significant history of abuse or [her] consistent inability to abstain during [the] case”
• holding that termination of parental rights on grounds of history of chronic substance abuse also requires, inter alia, clear and convincing evidence that a parent cannot discharge parental responsibilities because of his chronic substance abuse.
• noting that children should not be forced to wait inordinately for a parent to develop necessary parenting skills
• finding that Father failed to complete services in which he participated, therefore supporting the court’s order of severance
• finding that “temporary abstinence from drugs and alcohol does not outweigh . . . significant history of abuse or . . . consistent inability to abstain”
• finding that a parent’s chronic drug abuse prevented the parent from discharging parental duties, protecting the children from harm, and providing the children with a safe home

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).