Law.com - Appeals Court Faults Removal of Obese Child From Parents

Joel Stashenko

New York Law JournalMarch 3, 2008

Though not “ideal,” a couple’s efforts to control the weight of their obese daughter were made in good faith and did not justify a county agency’s repeated removal of the girl from her parents’ custody, an upstate New York appeals court ruled Thursday.

The custody case, Matter of Brittany T., 502131, concerned attempts by the Chemung County Department of Social Services to intervene in the upbringing of an obese girl.

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