State of Iowa v. John Henry Walker

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• noting that, at the dispositional phase of a termination of parental rights hearing, \the emphasis appropriately shifts from the conduct of the parent to the best interest of the child\ [internal quotation marks omitted]
• trial court’s findings were not clearly erroneous where much of child’s short life had been spent in custody of [commissioner] and child needed stability and permanency in her life
• factors in analogous statute, § 17a-112 [k], are merely guidelines and are not prerequisites that must be proved at all, let alone by clear and convincing evidence
• trial court’s best interest findings not clearly erroneous when much of child’s life had been spent in custody of petitioner and child needed stability and permanency
• trial court’s best interest findings not clearly erroneous when much of child’s life had been spent in custody of petitioner and child needed stability and per- manency
• trial court’s findings were not clearly erroneous where much of child’s short life had been spent in custody of [petitioner] and child needed stability and permanency in her life

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