Parental Rights in Minnesota
Minnesota Parental Rights News
Winning Defense: Stopping Bad Bills across the Nation
We talk a lot about good bills that we’re working on across the nation: legislation like our Parents’ Bill of Rights and fundamental parental rights bills that will strengthen the right of parents to raise, educate, and care for their children. But thanks to your support of ParentalRights.org, we also work aggressively to stop bad…
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Minnesota State Law and Parental Rights
At Risk
Minnesota does not have a state statute that explicitly defines and protects parental rights as fundamental rights.
March 2018: Some Minnesota lawmakers introduced a bill (S.F. 3779) to try to address disproportionality in CPS (see this Parental Rights Foundation report for disproporitionality information by state).
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Minnesota Courts and Parental Rights
"Strict Scrutiny" Applied to Parental Rights
Soohoo v. Johnson, 731 N.W.2d 815, 821 (Minn. 2007): The MN Supreme Court held that even though "the Supreme Court in Troxel did not articulate the standard of review to be applied when reviewing third-party visitation statutes . . .Strict scrutiny is the appropriate standard of review when fundamental rights are at issue."
However, this precedent is subject to change.