Schwebke v. Lutheran Social Services

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• holding that foster parents do not have \liberty interest\ sufficient to require procedural due process before foster children can be removed from their foster home
• holding that foster parents do not have \liberty interest\ sufficient to require procedural due process before foster children can be removed from their foster home
• holding that foster parent intervention may be appropriate “only to the extent that the rights of the foster parents and the rights of the legal parents do not conflict”
• holding that foster parent “intervention is within the juvenile court’s informed discretion” but “would be appropriate only to the extent that the rights of the foster parents and the rights of the legal parents do not conflict”
• recognizing emotional bond between foster parents and child, although ultimately determining foster parents did not have rights of parents in dependency action under Chapter 26.44 RCW
• recognizing emotional bond between foster parents and child, although ultimately determining foster parents did not have rights of parents in dependency action under chapter 26.44 RCW

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).