Soncini v. Rankin

How courts have described this case

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• affirming finding of deprivation and holding that it was fair to infer harm to child from mother’s chronic abuse of methamphetamine when, despite ongoing DFCS investigation into her addiction, mother did not cease using the drug
• “juvenile court is entitled to infer an adverse effect on the children when there is evidence of chronic alcohol or drug abuse by the parent”
• “[A] juvenile court is entitled to infer an adverse effect on the children when there is evidence of chronic alcohol or drug abuse by the parent.”
• \[A] juvenile court is entitled to infer an adverse effect on the children when there is evidence of chronic alcohol or drug abuse by the parent.\
• mother’s regular use of methamphetamine in the past and recent, potentially isolated, use of methamphetamine after her children had come back into her care was sufficient to support juvenile court’s finding of chronic substance abuse
• mother's chronic abuse of methamphetamine supported deprivation order

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).