Through the Eyes of the Child Initiative

Filed on October 28, 2008
Not designated for permanent publication
A-08-445
SUMMARY: Once a parent’s rights are terminated, the grandparent no longer has a legal interest in the court proceedings.  
The children, Crystal, Joshua and Jacob, were adjudicated under 43-247(3)(a) in June 2003. On August 18, 2005, the maternal grandmother, Carol, intervened in the proceedings. On [...]

By ED WHITE / The Associated Press Friday, Oct 17, 2008 - 07:36:02 pm CDT PONTIAC, Mich. — The state of Michigan was granted temporary custody Friday of four suburban Detroit children after one of them was abandoned in Nebraska under that state’s safe haven law. An Oakland County juvenile court referee scolded Teri Martin for dropping her 13-year-old adopted son at an Omaha hospital with $10 earlier this week. The teen could be back in Michigan by Monday. Lincoln Journal Star [...]
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By ED WHITE / The Associated Press
Friday, Oct 17, 2008
PONTIAC, Mich. — The state of Michigan was granted temporary custody Friday of four suburban Detroit children after one of them was abandoned in Nebraska under that state’s safe haven law.
An Oakland County juvenile court referee scolded Teri Martin for dropping her 13-year-old adopted son [...]

Filed on October 14, 2008
Not designated for permanent publication
A-08-049
SUMMARY: The statutory ground for termination where the child must be out of the home 15 of the most recent 22 months requires “clear and convincing evidence of circumstances as compelling and pertinent to a child’s best interests as to those enumerated in the other subsections”, given [...]