v. Illinois, 405 U.S. 645, 651 (1972); see also In re Parental Rights as to C.C.A., 128 Nev. 166, 169, 273 P.3d 852, 854 (2012). This liberty interest is protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Troxel, 530 U.S. at 65. It is presumed that fit parents act in the best interest of their children. Id. As long as parents adequately care for their children, there is ordinarily “no reason for the State to inject itself into the private realm of the family to further question the ability of that parent to make the best decisions concerning the rearing of that parent’s children.” Id. at 68-69. These substantive due process rights prohibit the government from depriving parents of the custody of their children without a finding of parental unfitness. Stanley, 405 U.S. 645 (<HOLDING>). In applying these constitutional principles
holding that parents are constitutionally entitled to a hearing on parental fitness before children are removed from their custody holding that although the father did not have physical custody of his children at the time they were removed the children were nonetheless effectively removed from both their parents when they were removed from the physical custody of the mother and placed in another home pursuant to the dispositional decree holding unwed father entitled to hearing on his fitness as a parent before children could be taken from him after death of their mother holding parental rights are constitutionally protected fundamental interest recognizing parents fundamental liberty interest in the care custody and management of their children