In re Gelvin B.
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The Supreme Court affirmed the decree of the family court terminating Mother's parental rights to her son, holding that Mother's arguments on appeal were unavailing.
The trial justice found that was not in the child's best interest to be placed with Mother, that Mother was unfit, and that the child was thriving with foster parents who could offer him permanency. The trial justice then found that it was in the child's best interest that mother's parental rights be terminated. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding (1) the finding of unfitness was supported by clear and convincing, legally competent evidence; (2) the trial justice's finding that reasonable efforts were made to reunify Mother and the child was supported by legally competent evidence; and (3) the trial justice's finding that Mother's termination of parental rights was in the child's best interest was supported by legally competent evidence.
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