IN RE T.K.

No. 28458.

939 A.2d 9 (2008)

105 Conn.App. 502

In re T.K.

Appellate Court of Connecticut.

Decided January 29, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Penn Rhodeen, New Haven, for the appellants (respondents).

Jon Femia, assistant attorney general, with whom, on the brief, were Richard Blumenthal, attorney general, and Susan T. Pearlman and Jessica Gauvin, assistant attorneys general, for the appellee (petitioner).

GRUENDEL, LAVINE and FOTI, J.


LAVINE, J.

"Parents have a constitutionally protected right to raise and care for their own children. . . . This right is not free from intervention by the state, however, when the continuing parens patriae interest of the state in the well being of children is deemed by law to supersede parental interests." (Citation omitted.) In re Juvenile Appeal (83-DE), 190 Conn. 310, 318-19, 460 A.2d 1277 (1983); see Santosky v....

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