R.C. v. Department of Children & Family Services

The result reached by the majority, which will permit E.C. to be adopted by her current foster parents, is an attractive one. However, the analysis in the majority opinion minimizes the multiple ways in which the Department’s case against both the Father and the Mother fails to meet some of the most basic requirements for the termination of parental rights. Measuring the record in this case against these requirements compels me to dissent.

*716I. INTRODUCTION

The Department failed to prove its case for the termination of either the Father’s or the Mother’s parental rights to E.C. based on case plan…