State ex rel. T.J.

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that \[t]he decision to terminate parental rights is vested within the sound discretion of the trial judge and will not be overturned on appeal absent a showing that the judge's actions were manifestly unsupported by reason\
• stating that when a court inquires into the competency of a parent under Rule 17, the court must “determine whether . . . the individual would be unable to aid in their defense at the termination of parental rights proceeding”
• rejecting respondent’s ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim where she failed to show prejudice where “the record contain[ed] overwhelming evidence supporting termination”
• stating that, “[i]f a fit relative were to come forward and declare their desire to have custody of the child, the court could consider this during the dispositional phase as grounds for why it would not be in the child’s best interests to terminate the respondent’s parental rights”
• stating that, “[i]f a fit relative were to come forward and declare their desire to have custody of the child, the court could consider this during the dispositional phase as grounds for why it would not be in the child’s best interests to terminate the respondent’s parental rights”
• noting that failure to assign error to a conclusion of law \`constitutes an acceptance of the conclusion and a waiver of the right to challenge said conclusion as unsupported by the facts'\ (quoting Fran's Pecans, Inc. v. Greene, 134 N.C. App. 110, 112, 516 S.E.2d 647, 649 (1999))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).