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IN RE M.L.

No. 09-089.

993 A.2d 400 (2010)

2010 VT 5

In re M.L. & Z.L., Juveniles.

Supreme Court of Vermont.

January 29, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Sorrell, Attorney General, Montpelier, and Martha Csala and Jody Racht, Assistant Attorneys General, Waterbury, Bridget C. Asay, Assistant Attorney General, Montpelier, and Steven Dunham, Office of the Public Defender, St. Albans, for Appellants.

Kurt M. Hughes of Murdoch Hughes & Twarog, P.C., Burlington, for Appellees.

Present: REIBER, C.J., DOOLEY, JOHNSON, SKOGLUND and BURGESS, JJ.

BURGESS, J.

¶ 1. The State of Vermont appeals from the family court's dismissal of its petition to declare juveniles M.L. and Z.L. as children in need of care or supervision (CHINS). Children join the State's appeal. The State asserts that the family court applied an improperly high standard of proof and relied on irrelevant evidence in reaching its conclusion. We affirm.

¶ 2. Parents have two children,...

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