The Court of Appeals reversed the trial court's order terminating Respondent's parental rights to minor child GM. The Court reasoned that Petitioner, Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), failed to create and implement a case service plan for Respondent as required by MCL 712A.18f.

Respondent parents did not abandon their child and DHHS failed to make reasonable efforts to remove the child. Therefore, the COA affirmed the trial court’s decision to decline jurisdiction.

The trial court in this child removal case properly accepted the respondent-mother’s waiver of a probable cause hearing and did not err by enforcing that waiver in subsequent proceedings, the Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled.

The statutory grounds for jurisdiction were reviewed and were determined that they met by a preponderance of the evidence and the trial court’s decision was affirmed.

Trial court properly denied the plaintiff-mother’s objections to the FOC referee’s recommendation that sole legal and physical custody be awarded to the defendant-father.

Trial Court’s order for termination of parental rights vacated and remanded due to failure to serve Respondent and failure to offer new hearing.

In a suit regarding temporary removal of custody, the U.S. Court of Appeals found that CPS workers have qualified immunity where no clearly established statutory or constitutional rights exist.

The case of In re Holbrook, Minor - which involves alleged parental neglect and the statutory grounds for taking jurisdiction over a minor child - is moot.

Clear and convincing evidence existed to terminate the mother’s parental rights in this case and doing so was in the child’s best interest.

Termination of a mother’s parental rights overruled by Michigan COA, due to trial court overemphasizing the mother’s use of marijuana.

Father’s parental rights properly terminated though the decision to do so was partly based on the testimony of a social worker with disciplinary proceedings.

The Michigan Supreme Court has remanded the case of In re Holbrook, Minor for a hearing to determine whether the case has become moot.

The trial court erred in granting the respondent a directed verdict during a child protective proceeding bench trial because the court rules limit directed verdicts to jury trials

The Michigan Supreme Court has vacated part of a lower court’s decision that had rejected a mother’s ineffective assistance of counsel claim in her termination of parental rights case.

The Michigan Court of Appeals has denied a mother’s request for appointed counsel in her child-custody case.

The trial court in this child-protective proceeding correctly placed the mother’s children under its jurisdiction because “some efforts” were made by DHHS to prevent removal of the children.