State ex rel. G.E.K.’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “The child has a right to permanency and stability which cannot [be] maintain[ed] if placed with [his] mother. It would be an injustice to the child to continue to give the mother unlimited chances to complete her case plan. It is not in the child's best interest to remain in foster care in the hopes that one day [his] mother will address the same issues that brought [him] into care initially. The minor child is in an adoptive placement and has been in the home with the foster parents for over two years. Considering the child's young age and need for a safe, stable, and permanent home, the best interest of the child is served by terminating the parental rights of his parents, thereby releasing him for adoption.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 261 So. 3d 879 - State ex rel. M.J.F.

2. “This analysis requires a balancing of the child's interests and the parent's interests; however, it has been repeatedly held that the interests of the child are paramount to that of the parent.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 261 So. 3d 879 - State ex rel. M.J.F.