Violet C., Appellant v. State of Alaska, Department of Health & Social Services, Office of Children's Services…

Summary

The Alaska Supreme Court affirmed the superior court’s termination of Violet C. and Jack C.’s parental rights, finding the twins were children in need of aid and that the Office of Children’s Services made reasonable efforts to reunify the family. The Court held Violet’s challenges to alternative child‑in‑need findings were moot and declined to apply the collateral consequences doctrine, and it found no error in the lower court’s reasonable‑efforts determinations for both parents.