In Re Oreoluwa O. — Espinosa, J., Dissenting

Summary

Justice Espinosa dissented from the majority's reversal of the termination judgment. She would have concluded that the department made reasonable reunification efforts, that the respondent abandoned the child, and that he lacked standing to assert a due process claim based on alleged injury to the child. She maintained that the majority failed to defer appropriately to the trial court's factual findings and improperly relied on matters absent from the record.