State Ex Rel. Department of Human Services v. Rodgers

How courts have described this case

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

• in the context of termination proceedings, a parent’s hostility toward DHS, “standing alone, is not evidence of conduct or a condition seriously detrimental to [the] child” (emphasis added)
• “ [F] ather’s hostility toward DHS was part of a general refusal to participate in services that would have been an essential part of establishing that it was safe to return child to father’s care.”
• “Child is exposed to all of the proven conduct and conditions together, and our unfitness determination is similarly based on consideration of that combination of conduct and conditions and on whether that combination is seriously detrimental to child.” (Internal quotation marks omitted.)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).