By: Derek Hawkins//March 22, 2017//
WI Court of Appeals – District II
Case Name: Racine County Human Services Department v. R.E.
Case No.: 2016AP2039
Officials: Gundrum
Focus: Termination of Parental Rights
R.E. appeals from the circuit court’s grant of partial summary judgment to Racine County Human Services Department (“County”), which grant concluded there were grounds for termination of R.E.’s parental rights to her daughter, S.E., on the basis of abandonment. She also contends the circuit court erred in denying her motion to continue the dispositional hearing so as to afford another opportunity for a witness to testify. For the following reasons, we affirm.