South Carolina Department of Social Services v. Cummings

How courts have described this case

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• holding the mother's history of drug relapse was a significant factor in determining TPR was in the child's best interest
• holding the mother's history of drug relapse was a significant factor in determining TPR was in the child's best interest
• focusing on repentant conduct and noting it “must be considered together with all [of] the relevant facts and circumstances”
• finding judicially-motivated repentance, standing alone, rarely warrants a finding of curative conduct, and it must be considered together with all the relevant facts and circumstances
• finding a mother failed to remedy her cocaine abuse when she failed to complete five different drug abuse counseling courses after removal, tested positive for cocaine three times, and refused or did not make herself available for seven other screenings
• “Once conduct constituting a failure to support is shown to have existed, the court must then determine whether the parent’s subsequent conduct was of a sufficient nature to be curative.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).