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“Parental rights are terminated only for grave and weighty reasons.”

-75 (Minn. 1990) (stating role of court of appeals is to correct errors, not to find facts).

DECISION Parental rights may only be terminated for “grave and weighty reasons.”

d 370, 374-75 (Minn. 1990) (recognizing that role of appellate courts is to correct errors, not to find facts); (“The function of the court of appeals is limited to identifying errors and then correcting them.”).

See, -69 (Minn. 1980); J.R.B., d at 904-05.

“The child’s best interests, however, remain the paramount consideration in every termination case.” d 370, 375 (Minn. 1990).

“Parental rights are terminated only for grave and weighty reasons.”

Parental rights may only be terminated for “grave and weighty reasons.”

(stating that we are error-correcting court that does not try case de novo)

To ensure the welfare of minor children, Minnesota law authorizes the termination of parental rights for “grave and weighty reasons.” d 370, 375 (Minn. 1990).

The doctrine provides that “when a court decides upon a rule of law, that decision should continue to govern the same issues in subsequent stages in the same case.” (emphasis omitted) (quotation omitted).

(“The child’s best interests, however, remain the paramount consideration in every termination case.”).

(emphasis omitted) (quotation omitted).

D E C I S I O N Parental rights are terminated only for “grave and weighty reasons.”

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“ Parental rights are terminated only for grave and weighty reasons,” but this court gives “considerable deference to the district court’s deci sion to terminate 10 parental rights,” S.E.P., d at 385.

We are mindful that “[p]arental rights are terminated only for grave and weighty re asons,” but we give “considerable d eference to the district court’s decision to terminate parental rights,” S.E.P., d at 385.

(holding that the court of appeal’s role is “an error-correcting body[]” rather than entering “into the fact finding domain of the [district] court”).

We are mindful that “[p]arental rights are terminated only for grave and weighty reasons,” but we give “considerable deference to the district court ’s decision to terminate parental rights,” S.E.P., d at 385.

Thus, Minnesota courts will terminate parental rights only for “grave and weighty reasons.”

-75 (Minn. 1990) (stating that the role of the court of appeals is to correct errors, not to find facts); Stiff v. Associated Sewing Supply Co. , (“[A]n appellate court’s limited scope of review circumscribes additional fact finding by it .

As a result, parental rights may be terminated “only for grave and weighty reasons.”

This court reviews the district court’s termination of parental rights to determine “whether the trial court’s findings address the statutory criteria, whether those findings are 10 supported by substantial evidence, and whether those findings are clearly erroneous.”

–75 (Minn. 1990) (holding that the role of the court of appeals is to correct errors, not to find facts).

–75 (Minn. 1990) (holding that the role of the court of appeals is to correct errors, not to find facts).

d 370, 375 (Minn. 1990).

The county argues that M.A.G.’s attendance with the RISE agency was not adequate , but e ven if M.A.G.’s attendance was questionable, lack of employment does not rise to “grave” conditions to terminate M.A.G.’s parental right s. (“Parental rights are terminated only for grave and weighty reasons .”).

Our review of termination proceedings is informed by the understanding that courts may terminate parental rights only for “grave and weighty reasons.” d 370, 375 (Minn. 1990).

d 370, 375 (Minn. 1990).