T.M.F. v. Children's Service Society of Wisconsin

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a circuit court’s legal conclusion may be given weight when it is “derived from and intertwined with the [circuit] court’s factual inquiry during which the [circuit] court has had the opportunity to question and observe the witnesses”
• listing six factors for ascertaining whether a consent is voluntary and informed
• “Parental advice, argument, or persuasion do not constitute coercion if the individual who has to make the decision acts freely when [the individual] gives consent, even though the consent might not have been executed except for the advice, argument, or persuasion.”
• commonly referred to as “In re D.L.S.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).