In re D.B.

Biological parents appeal the family court’s order terminating their residual rights to parent their four daughters. 33 V.S.A. §§ 5532, 5540 (TPR proceeding). At the time of hearing, the girls were aged 12, 8, 6, and 5. The parents take issue with the court’s essential finding that their progress was insufficient to warrant further rehabilitation efforts toward reuniting the family. They also maintain that less drastic alternatives to termination of parental rights were not adequately explored and that the court improperly denied them a hearing on motions to reopen the evidence. We affirm.

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