Supreme Court of Connecticut
In re Annessa J.
June 20, 2022343 Conn. 642
Summary
The court upheld the termination of the respondents' parental rights after concluding that the unpreserved constitutional challenges to the remote trial did not warrant relief. It held that posttermination visitation is governed by the statutory "necessary or appropriate" standard, not a separate best-interest-of-the-child standard, and that the trial court applied the correct standard. The court therefore reversed the intermediate appellate court's ruling on visitation and directed it to affirm the trial court's judgment.