State in Interest of JRT v. Timperly

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a finding of abandonment satisfied the need to separately consider the child’s best interests
• stating duty to assist is triggered if defendant’s rights terminated based on unfitness rather than abandonment
• stating duty to assist is triggered if defendant's rights terminated based on unfitness rather than abandonment
• evaluating the child's relationship with his foster family, and improvement under their care, when analyzing whether termination of his parent's rights was in his best interest
• evaluating the child’s relationship with his foster family, and improvement under then-care, when analyzing whether termination of his parent’s rights was in his best interest
• making this statement regarding a formerly numbered statute defining prima facie evidence of abandonment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).