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· 6/27/2001

Termination of the Parent/Child Relationship of M.H.C. v. Hill

Citations

  • 750 N.E.2d 872
  • 2001 Ind. App. LEXIS 1129
  • 2001 WL 721747

How courts have described this case

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  • explaining that provisions (ii) and (iii) were added to the statute in 1999 to comply with federal law that seeks “to ensure that children did not spend long periods of their childhoods in foster care or other settings designed to be temporary”
  • rejecting a father's argument that it was not in the best interests of his child to terminate his parental rights because the trial court could have simply made the child's aunt a permanent guardian
  • rejecting a father's argument that it was not in the best interests of his child to terminate his parental rights because the trial court could have simply made the child's aunt a permanent guardian

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Judges: Mathias, Bailey, Baker

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