White v. County Commissioners of Norfolk

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• concluding that record was inadequate to permit meaningful evaluation of whether termination was in child’s best interest, where child was attached to parent and the Department of Human Services (DHS
• concluding that the evidence in the record did not persuade us that termination was in the child’s best interest, where child was bonded to parent and DHS did not adduce child-specific evidence as to why termination was superior to permanent guardianship
• discussing, as part of the best-interest analysis, whether the child’s potential adoptive placement would be willing to facilitate an ongoing relation- ship with the child’s mother, to whom the child was bonded, if her rights were terminated
• “[T]he juvenile code demands a persuasive factual showing that termination of parental rights to a particular child is in that child’s best interest, in view of the particular needs and circumstances of the child.”

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