In re Z.O.G.-I
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The Supreme Court vacated the dispositional portion of the trial court's order terminating Father's parental rights to his minor child and remanded for entry of a new dispositional order, holding that the trial court misapprehended the legal effects of the termination.
The trial court concluded that grounds existed to terminate Father's parental rights based on N.C. Gen. Stat. 7B-1111(a)(1) and (2) and that termination of Father's parental rights was in the child's best interests. The Supreme Court affirmed the trial court's adjudication of grounds under section 7B-1111(a)(2) but vacated the dispositional portion of the trial court's order, holding that the trial court's decision to order both that Father's parental rights be terminated and that Father be allowed to continue co-parenting the child suggested a misapprehension of the legal effects attendant to terminating parental rights. Therefore, the case was remanded for a new dispositional determination.
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