Termination of Parental Rights

By: Derek Hawkins//October 11, 2017//

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WI Court of Appeals – District IV

Case Name: M.R.B. v. S.S.

Case No.: 2017AP1217; 2017AP1218; 2017AP1219

Officials: LUNDSTEN, P.J.

Focus: Termination of Parental Rights

S.S. appeals the circuit court’s orders terminating his parental rights to his children A.S., A.S., and A.S. S.S. argues that the circuit court lost competency to proceed by failing to hold a dispositional hearing within the statutorily required time lines; that the court erred in denying S.S. a continuance to obtain counsel and participate meaningfully in the dispositional phase of the proceedings; and that the court erroneously exercised its discretion when making the decision to terminate S.S.’s parental rights. For the reasons that follow, I affirm.

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