parental rights
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State Supreme Court finds no problem with judge terminating parental rights as father struggled to log in
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Colorado’s Supreme Court on Monday did not fault a Jefferson County judge for refusing to postpone a hearing in which she terminated a father’s parental rights, even as the man was unsuccessfully trying to connect to the proceedings virtually. The justices noted that Colorado law permits judges to end the legal relationship between a parent…
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Technical difficulties, constitutional rights at center of Colorado Supreme Court parental case
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Members of the Colorado Supreme Court appeared leery on Tuesday of concluding a father experienced a violation of his constitutional rights when a Jefferson County judge terminated the legal relationship with his child. There was no dispute that the man, identified as R.B., had notice of the hearing and a lawyer who advocated on his…
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Facts did not support Boulder County judge’s finding of child neglect, appeals court says
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A Boulder County judge did not have sufficient facts to definitively conclude a man had neglected his child, Colorado’s second-highest court ruled last week in reversing the trial court’s decision. In child welfare proceedings, formally known as dependency and neglect cases, a judge’s finding of neglect can eventually lead to the termination of the legal…
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State Supreme Court takes up cases on revenge porn, virtual court difficulties
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Colorado’s Supreme Court justices have announced they will review four decisions of the state’s Court of Appeals, ranging from a criminal conviction under the “revenge-porn” law to a man’s struggles accessing the virtual hearing where a judge terminated his parental rights. Two members of the court indicated they would have granted an additional appeal clarifying…
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State Supreme Court says censured judge’s admission of bias not grounds to vacate decision
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The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday concluded its censure of a former judge for racial bias and professional misconduct does not mean she actually was biased in a child welfare proceeding. In April 2021, the Supreme Court censured and accepted the resignation of then-Arapahoe County District Court Judge Natalie T. Chase, who admitted to saying…
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State Supreme Court agrees to hear El Paso County child welfare case
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The Colorado Supreme Court will review whether a trial court judge in El Paso County had the ability to terminate a mother and father’s parental rights, even though they and their child had moved out of state. The justices agreed in late April to hear the case of E.W., who was two years old in…
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Letter: Leonard ‘dust-up’ evidence of media bias?
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Editor: Does anyone think that Rep. Tim Leonard’s travails have anything to do with the education of his children? Does a dust-up over iPad usage warrant 14 days in the slammer? If Leonard had told the child to ‘turn of the TV while doing homework’, could that have escalated into a term in Super-Max or Guantanamo?…
