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This may not help your decision, but might be worth considering:
Here, if you are a party to the case you can stay in the courtroom the entire time and hear all of the testimony. If you are a witness you are excluded from the courtroom until after your testimony has been given, then you may be able to stay or may be asked to leave.
Also, here, the judge takes into consideration who is in the courtroom (if you are permitted to be in the courtroom that is). We were thanked by the judge for being at every hearing and "showing" him (he read our facial expressions) what testimony we thought was true and what plans would best help the kids. It didn't make a difference as to outcome of TPR, but it did make a difference regarding services to the children.
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