Summerlin v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the proof did not show that the mother’s failure to visit was intentional rather than the result of a number of circumstances including DCS’s placement of the child in another county
• holding that the proof did not show that the mother’s failure to visit was intentional rather than the result of a number of circumstances including DCS’s placement of the child in another county
• holding that the proof did not show that the mother’s failure to visit was intentional rather than the result of a number of circumstances including DCS’s placement of the child in another county
• holding that the proof did not show that the mother’s failure to visit was intentional rather than the result of a number of circumstances including DCS’s placement of the child in another county
• noting that a child with permanent injuries required a home with the presence of a care giver, unlike the drug addicted mother
• noting that “a suitable home requires more than a physical space” and concluding that “the inability of a parent to overcome drug addiction can provide statutory grounds for termination of parental rights” under this statutory ground

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).