Adoption of Elena

In an unpublished opinion pursuant to its rule 1:28, the Appeals Court vacated the orders of a judge in the Juvenile Court terminating the mother’s parental rights to three of her *25five children.2 The Appeals Court affirmed so much of the orders as determined that the mother was unfit to assume parental responsibilities as of the time of trial, but it concluded that the trial judge failed to consider properly whether the mother’s unfitness at the time of trial was temporary, based on recent progress she had made at a drug rehabilitation program. The court remanded the matter for further…