Opinion ID: 887296
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Heading: Whether substantial compliance with a treatment plan is sufficient to preclude termination of parental rights.

Text: ¶ 30 K.G. maintains that she substantially complied with those requirements in the treatment plans that had a substantial bearing upon her ability to provide a safe and secure home for the children and that her substantial compliance was sufficient to preclude the termination of her parental rights. We disagree. ¶ 31 We have repeatedly held that complete compliance with a treatment plan is required, as opposed to partial compliance or even substantial compliance. D.V., ¶ 27 (citing N.A., ¶ 36, 59 P.3d 1135). Moreover, as we noted in In re A.F., 2003 MT 254, ¶ 25, 317 Mont. 367, ¶ 25, 77 P.3d 266, ¶ 25, the relevant statute, § 41-3-609(1)(f)(i), MCA, is written in the disjunctive  a treatment plan has not been complied with or has not been successful.