Department of Social & Health Services v. E.I.

¶1 E.I. is the mother of A.B. The juvenile

court terminated E.I.’s parental rights to A.B. based on a finding that E.I. had cognitive impairments that would never allow her to parent A.B. on her own. We agree with E.I. that cognitive impairments alone are not parenting deficiencies and that the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) failed to meet its burden to prove that E.I. is currently unfit to parent A.B. We reverse the juvenile court’s order terminating E.I.’s parental rights to A.B. and remand for further proceedings.

FACTS

¶2 E.I. and N.B. are the parents of A.B., born February…