In Re Christopher B.

OPINION

FLANDERS, Justice.

This is a consolidated case involving a mentally deficient mother’s appeal from a Family Court decree terminating her parental rights (TPR) to two of her children. It also. involves a petition for certiorari filed by the Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) concerning whether DCYF must obtain court permission to end visitation between a parent and his or her children during the pendency of the parent’s appeal from a TPR decree visa-vis those children. In her appeal from this TPR decree, the mother suggests that, before DCYF filed a TPR petition against…