Court Opinion

ID: 9883957
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-10-06 02:27:41.85406+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:48:33.873296
License: Public Domain

GILDEA, Justice
(concurring).
I join in section I of the majority’s opinion, but I write separately to note my disagreement with the majority’s conclusion in section II that “[t]he County’s expectations that T.M. would abstain from drugs and alcohol, * ⅝ * [was] ‘especially daunting’ ” in the circumstances of this case. With respect to the no-use condition, the district court found that the social services agent “did everything possible to assist [T.M.] in proving sobriety,” and that T.M.’s “excuse for failing to provide random UAs for four months * * * was not credible.” The district court observed the witnesses and is in the best position to make these factual determinations. I do not, however, disagree with the majority’s ultimate conclusion in section II that the County, like the parent, must comply with all of the terms of the case plan, or seek to have conditions of the plan altered if those conditions become futile. As the majority suggests, the County did not avail itself of that remedy in this case. Thus, while I disagree with the majority’s analysis as noted above, I concur in the result.