IN RE COH, ERC, JRG, & KBH

Docket No. 147515. Calendar No. 2.

848 N.W.2d 107 (2014)

495 Mich. 184

In re COH, ERH, JRG, & KBH, Minors.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided April 22, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dale J. Hilson , Prosecuting Attorney, and Charles F. Justian , Chief Appellate Attorney, for the Department of Human Services.

Bill Schuette , Attorney General, Aaron D. Lindstrom , Solicitor General, and H. Daniel Beaton, Jr. , Assistant Attorney General, for the Superintendent of the Michigan Children's Institute.

Scott Bassett , for Lori Scribner.

Tobin L. Miller , for the State Bar of Michigan, Children's Law Section.

Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP, Bloomfield Hills (by Beth J. Kerwin ), for the Legal Services Association of Michigan and the Michigan State Planning Body, for the Delivery of Legal Services to the Poor.


MICHAEL F. CAVANAGH, J.

This case requires us to consider the interplay between MCL 722.954a and MCL 712A.19c. Specifically, we must determine whether the preference for placement with relatives created by MCL 722.954a is relevant to a court's consideration of a petition to appoint a guardian under MCL 712A.19c(2).

Because we conclude that the two statutes apply at different and distinct stages of child protective...

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