Parent and Child – Termination – Reunification

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Parent and Child – Termination – Reunification

Where a respondent s parental rights were terminated, that decision must be reversed because the Department of Health and Human Services 1 did not allege the existence of an exception to its duty to provide reasonable efforts toward reunification and 2 violated the respondent s right to due process of law. It is well established that parents have