e-Journal Summary

e-Journal Number : 85390
Opinion Date : 03/12/2026
e-Journal Date : 03/25/2026
Court : Michigan Court of Appeals
Case Name : In re Lindsey
Practice Area(s) : Termination of Parental Rights
Judge(s) : Per Curiam – Korobkin, Yates, and Feeney
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Issues:

Termination of parental rights at the initial dispositional hearing; MCL 722.638(1)(a)(ii); Termination under §§ 19b(3)(b)(i) & (k)(ii); Child’s best interests

Summary

The court affirmed the trial court’s order terminating respondent-father’s “parental rights to the . . . child at the initial dispositional hearing, pursuant to MCL 722.638(1)(a)(ii)[.]” Here, (1) the DHHS requested termination of [his] parental rights in its petition; (2) the trial court accepted his plea as a basis for jurisdiction; (3) the trial court found that there was clear and convincing evidence that he “sexually penetrated the child’s half-sibling, pursuant to MCL 722.638(1)(a)(ii),” §§ (b)(i), and (k)(ii); and (4) “the trial court found that termination of his parental rights was in the child’s best interests. The trial court did not “err by making these findings or by terminating respondent’s parental rights at the initial dispositional hearing.”

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