Topic: the focus of a chins proceeding is the welfare of the child. · Go Syfert
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4 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 16 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from In re B.R..

#Case FlagCanonical passage Citers
1 In re B.R. Anchor
vt · 2014
green “the focus of a chins proceeding is the welfare of the child.” 7
2 In re D.D.
vt · 2013
green “when reviewing a chins decision, we uphold the court's factual findings unless clearly erroneous and the court's legal conclusions when supported by those findings.” 4
3 E.J.R. v. Young
vt · 1994
green “actual and completed harmful acts cannot be, and are not, a precondition to a chins finding” 3

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