Smith v. Midland Brake, Inc.

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• rejecting the Appellants’ argument that the termination order should be set aside because DCS allegedly failed to provide services during the underlying CHINS proceedings
• noting requirement for DCS to provide reasonable services was not a requisite element of parental rights termination statute and DCS’s failure to provide services could not serve as basis to attack termination order
• noting requirement for DCS to provide reasonable services was not a requisite element of parental rights termination statute and DCS’s failure to provide services could not serve as basis to attack termination order
• “[I]n interpreting a statute, we must consider not only what the statute says but what it does not say. In other words, we are obliged to suppose that the General Assembly chose the language it did for a reason.” (quotations and citations omitted)

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