In re James O.

The trial court terminated Mother’s parental rights as to her two minor children and appointed the Commissioner of Children and Families as the children's statutory parent. The Appellate Court affirmed. Mother appealed, arguing that the trial court made an improper comparison between the parenting abilities of Mother and those of the therapeutic foster mother of the children to support the court’s conclusion that Mother had failed to reach a sufficient level of personal rehabilitation. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that the trial court did not improperly compare the abilities of Mother and the therapeutic foster mother of the children during the court’s adjudicative phase of its judgment in finding that Mother failed to achieve a reasonable degree of rehabilitation. View "In re James O." on Justia Law