SC v. Department of Children and Families

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming TPR where trial court gave mother opportunity to explain her failure to appear and, following mother’s testimony, found her explanations were contradictory and not credible
• affirming termination under section 39.801(3)(d) based on trial court’s determination that the mother’s explanation for her nonappearance was not credible due to her inconsistent and contradictory testimony
• \Custody and dependency should not be decided by \gotcha\ practices when a parent makes a reasonable effort to be present at a hearing and is delayed by circumstances beyond his or her control\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).