Stephens v. Natchitoches Parish School Board

How courts have described this case

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• noting that District is required to “make a showing that . . . placement in shelter care was the only available option to protect the children”
• reversing custody order in neglect proceeding because trial court failed to give meaningful weight to the parental presumption before rejecting father’s request for custody
• “[A] 237 parent’s poverty, ill health, or lack of education or sophistication, will not alone 238 constitute grounds for termination of parental rights.”
• “[A] parent’s poverty, ill health, or lack of education or sophistication, will not alone constitute grounds for termination of parental rights.”
• “The presumption is spelled out expressly in the neglect statute, which states that in abuse and neglect proceedings in the District of Columbia, it ‘shall be presumed that it is generally preferable to leave a child in his or her own home.’” (citing D.C. Code § 16-2320 (a))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).