In Re Nathaniel B.’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “[W]hile the inquiry concerning parental unfitness ... concerning the parents’ inability or unwillingness to protect the children from jeopardy and to take responsibility for the children, is prospective, the evidence to be considered is retrospective. In re Leona T., 609 A.2d 1157, 1159 (Me. 1992). As to ... the parents’ failure to rehabilitate and reunify, its plain meaning requires the court to undertake a retrospective analysis. There is nothing in the statute, and nothing in our past decisions, that limits the temporal scope of the court’s examination of evidence to any particular period.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Alexander D.

2. “[W]hile the inquiry concerning parental unfitness pursuant to sections 4055(l)(B)(2)(b)(i) and (ii), concerning the parents’ inability or unwillingness to protect the children from jeopardy and to take responsibility for the children, is prospective, the evidence to be considered is retrospective.... There is nothing in the statute, and nothing in our past decisions, that limits the temporal scope of the court’s examination of evidence to any particular period. We decline to impose such a limit.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Rachel J.