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While this is a European case and NOT a NJ \/ United States case it present a devastating insight into a Court’s role in balancing the best interests of a child and parental rights. \u00a0http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/against-his-parents%e2%80%99-wishes-this-terminally-ill-infant-will-be-allowed-to-die\/ar-BBDsI95?ocid=spartanntp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While this is a European case and NOT a NJ \/ United States case it present a devastating insight into a Court’s role in balancing the best interests of a child and parental rights. \u00a0http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/against-his-parents%e2%80%99-wishes-this-terminally-ill-infant-will-be-allowed-to-die\/ar-BBDsI95?ocid=spartanntp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[28],"tags":[76,30,29,32,47],"class_list":["post-2596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-durstfirm-news","tag-child","tag-custody","tag-divorce","tag-durst","tag-nj"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6omM8-FS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":907,"url":"https:\/\/thedurstfirm.com\/?p=907","url_meta":{"origin":2596,"position":0},"title":"Should children have their own attorney in parental termination cases?","author":"Sandy Durst","date":"October 17, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"In an apparent effort to protect the rights and interests of children in NJ, the Assembly Judiciary Committee is\u00a0\u00a0 proposing to require children in parental termination cases be provided with their own attorney. 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