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A termination hearing is a legal proceeding where a judge decides whether to end a parent's rights to their child. This type of hearing is also known as a termination-of-parental-rights hearing.
For example, if a child has been in foster care for a long time and the parents have not made progress in addressing the issues that led to the child's removal, the state may seek to terminate the parents' rights to the child. At the termination hearing, the judge will hear evidence and decide whether it is in the child's best interest to end the parent-child relationship.
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