Steele v. Walker

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a parent’s incarceration can be determinative as to a parent’s incapacity, and the length of the parent’s remaining confinement can be considered as highly relevant as to whether the incapacity can be remedied
• stating that a parent has “a duty to utilize available resources to continue a J-S13030-15 relationship with his or her child[]”
• explaining that “a parent who is incapable of performing parental duties is just as parentally unfit as one who refuses to perform the duties.”
• holding the Orphans’ Court erred by applying caselaw analyzing the (a)(1) abandonment subsection to the (a)(2) incapacity subsection
• setting forth the standards and scope of review applied to the involuntary termination of the parental rights pursuant to 23 Pa.C.S. § 2511(a)
• noting “parent has an affirmative duty to love, protect[,] and support his child and to make an effort to maintain communication and association with that child”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).