In re Caleb P.’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “[i]t is not hard to understand why [the child] may have limited recollection of [the respondent]. The petitioner cannot be permitted to prevent visitation and thence to allege that the [respondent's] parental rights should be terminated for failing to maintain a relationship.... "For those two reasons, the existence of positive present memories or feelings of the children (or at least one of them), and the conduct and attitude of the petitioner to frustrate the visitation of the father, the court concludes that the petitioner has not met her burden of proving by clear and convincing evidence that a statutory ground has been satisfied.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 167 Conn. App. 248 - In re Carla C.

2. “In In re Valerie D. ... the court concluded [that] the state may not, under the circumstances of this case, obtain and maintain custody of the child so as to create a lack of an ongoing parent-child relationship.... This court finds as a matter of law that this principle should extend not only to state actors, but to private individuals as well. Here, while the [respondent's] conduct is reprehensible as a father figure, [the petitioner] resisted, especially over the past three years, any meaningful, cooperative visitation relationship between the [respondent] and his children.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 167 Conn. App. 248 - In re Carla C.

3. “must be viewed within the context of the great animosity the custodial parent, mother, harbors for the noncustodial father. It is clear that it is not permissible to terminate the parental rights of an individual when it is the [petitioner who] is largely or solely responsible for the existence of the grounds upon which termination is based.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 167 Conn. App. 248 - In re Carla C.