Sentences with phrase «extreme cases of child abuse»

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Generally speaking, termination of parental rights if fairly rare, and only imposed in the most extreme cases, for example, where a parent has subjected a child to severe abuse, including abandonment, torture, chronic abuse, or sexual abuse, or has committed similar acts against the other parent.

Except in extreme cases of neglect or abuse, children typically thrive under a joint custody arrangement.

In extreme cases of physical neglect, domestic abuse, substance abuse or child abandonment, a judge has the discretion to order sole legal custody and sole physical custody to only one parent.

Except in cases of extreme abuse or neglect, it is almost always in a child's best interests to have significant time with each parent.