IN RE DIXON

No. 363388.

13 N.W.3d 151 (2023)

346 Mich. App. 363

IN RE A. K. DIXON, Minor.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided April 20, 2023, 9:00 a.m.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dana Nessel, Attorney General, Ann M. Sherman, Solicitor General, David S. Leyton, Prosecuting Attorney, Michael A. Tesner, Managing Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, and Janet L. McLaren, Special Assistant Attorney General, for the Department of Health and Human Services.

Atty Team for Indigent Fathers, PLLC, Davison (by Douglas I. Buck, II) for respondent.

Before: Gleicher, C.J., and O'Brien and Maldonado, JJ.


Within days after AKD's birth, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) petitioned for his removal from his mother and for the termination of her parental rights. The DHHS knew that the current respondent was the child's likely father. Father expeditiously established his paternity. Yet the DHHS neglected to file a petition...

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