Sylvia v. State, Department of Health & Social Services, Office of Children's Services

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that cause of failure to reunify family was mother’s disappearance and lack of interest, not OCS’s failure to make adequate efforts
• holding that “reasonableness of OCS’s efforts may . . . depend on the parent’s expressed interest in parenting, with OCS’s responsibility lessening as the parent’s interest wanes”
• holding OCS’s failed attempts to engage parent met higher “active efforts” standard despite “parent’s evasive or combative conduct”
• “The reasonableness of OCS’s efforts may also depend on the parent’s expressed interest in parenting, with OCS’s responsibility lessening as the parent’s interest wanes.”
• “In determining whether OCS made active efforts, the trial court may consider all services provided during the family’s involvement with OCS; it need not focus on a distinct period of time.”
• first citing 25 U.S.C. § 1912(d); then citing CINA Rule 18(c)(2)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).