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Juvenile Law Appellate Court Slip Opinion

by Greenlee, Rebecca

 

AC48460 - In re Janeleah I. ("The respondent mother, Desiree I., appeals from the judgment of the trial court rendered in favor of the petitioner, the Commissioner of Children and Families, terminating her parental rights with respect to her minor child, Janeleah. On appeal, the respondent claims that the court (1) violated her rights to procedural due process under the fourteenth amendment to the United States constitution by conducting the termination of parental rights trial in her absence and (2) improperly failed to make written, mandatory findings as to the seven best interest factors set forth in General Statutes § 17a-112 (k). We disagree with the respondent’s first claim but agree with her second claim. Accordingly, we reverse the court’s judgment with respect to its dispositional determination that termination of the respondent’s parental rights was in Janeleah’s best interest and remand the case for a new dispositional hearing.")