Legal Opinion
In re R.W. and N.W.
Supreme Court of Vermont
Decided November 18, 2011No. 2011-006PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*113Burgess, J.
¶ 1. In this termination of parental rights case, we consider two separate appeals pertaining to mother’s and father’s respective rights to their two daughters, seventeen-year-old R.W. and thirteen-year-old N.W. The case presents novel jurisdictional questions because the parents and children are citizens of Sri Lanka and, although mother and the children have been residents of Vermont for a number of years, father continues to reside in Sri Lanka and has never been to Vermont. The Department for Children and Families (DCF) petitioned to terminate both mother’s and father’s…
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