IN RE D.H.

No. 17-031.

173 A.3d 883 (2017)

2017 VT 71

IN RE D.H. & S.C., Juveniles.

Supreme Court of Vermont.

August 11, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Rose , St. Albans, for Appellant Mother.

Matthew Valerio , Defender General, and Rebecca Turner , Appellate Defender, Montpelier, for Appellees Juveniles.

Thomas J. Donovan, Jr. , Attorney General, Benjamin Battles , Solicitor General, Montpelier, and Jody A. Racht , Assistant Attorney General, Waterbury, for Appellee State.

Nancy Breiden , Vermont Legal Aid, Inc., Rutland, and Barbara Prine and Rachel Seelig , Vermont Legal Aid, Inc., Burlington, for Amicus Curiae Disability Law Project.

PRESENT: Reiber, C.J., Skoglund, Robinson and Eaton, JJ., and Teachout, Supr. J., Specially Assigned.


¶ 1. Mother appeals the termination of her parental rights to D.H., born in 2004, and S.C., born in 2006. She argues that the family court improperly withheld its discretion by refusing to grant a thirty-minute continuance so that she could attend the termination hearing. We agree and reverse...

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