Department of Human Services v. J. B. V.

In this juvenile dependency case, father appeals two judgments that changed the permanency plan for two of his children from reunification to adoption. See ORS 419B.476. He assigns error to the juvenile court’s denial of his motion to dismiss the juvenile court’s jurisdiction over the children, the court’s decision to change the permanency plans from reunification to adoption, and the court’s admission of certain exhibits for the purpose of making those two decisions.1 Those assignments each spring from father’s legal argument that the trial court improperly relied on the exception to the…