Ilee M. v. State, Department of Institutions, Social & Rehabilitative Services

I dissent. The procedural protections of Title 10, granted to those parents whose children are in jeopardy of being declared dependent or neglected, have been continually denied to parents who are in a much more perilous position of having all rights to raise their children terminated. See the dissent in Ruth P. v. State of Oklahoma, 578 P.2d 352 (Okl.1978), where we pointed to the sophistry of holding a termination proceeding is merely another phase of a dispositional hearing not entitled to procedural safeguards. The fallacy of the view of the majority is even more apparent where the time…