Termination of Parental Rights.

Byline: Derek Hawkins

WI Court of Appeals District IV

Case Name: Dane County Department of Human Services

Case No.: 2019AP1336; 2019AP1337; 2019AP1338

Officials: BLANCHARD, J.

Focus: Termination of Parental Rights

T.R. appeals the circuit court's orders terminating her parental rights to three children, K.D., K.S., and A.S., on the petitions of the Dane County Department of Human Services (the County). She challenges only the circuit court's rulings in the dispositional phase and makes no arguments regarding the grounds phase. She argues that the court erroneously exercised its discretion in three ways: (1) by failing to consider whether the children have substantial relationships with one another and whether termination of her parental rights would sever those child-to-child relationships in a harmful manner; (2) by failing to reflect adequate consideration of the factors pertinent to the disposition of a termination of parental...