In Re the Welfare of P.R.L.

OPINION

LANCASTER, Justice.

This case arose from a petition by the appellant, Hennepin County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), to the Hennepin County District Court, requesting termination of respondent mother’s parental rights to her child, P.R.L. P.R.L. was born in July 1988. ' He has been consistently adjudicated a child in need of protection or services since November 1996 and has been placed out of his mother’s home continuously since June 1996. In April 1998, pursuant to an agreement by the parties, the district court issued an order that terminated respondent’s parental…