Termination of Parental Rights

By: Derek Hawkins//January 17, 2017//

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WI Court of Appeals – District I

Case Name: State of Wisconsin v. B.H.

Case No.: 2016AP892; 2016AP893

Officials: Brennan, P.J.

Focus: Termination of Parental Rights

B.H. appeals orders terminating her parental rights to two children, B. and J. She asks this court to vacate the orders and either dismiss the petitions or remand the matter for a new fact-finding hearing.2 She argues that inadmissible hearsay and opinion evidence was submitted at the grounds trial, and trial counsel’s failure to object to it constituted prejudicial ineffective assistance of counsel. She further argues that the evidence was insufficient to support the finding that grounds exist for termination on the two grounds asserted here: continuing need of protection or services and failure to assume parental responsibility. See WIS. STAT. §§ 48.415(2) and (6)(a).

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