Department of Human Services v. T. M. S.

In this juvenile dependency case, mother and her child appeal the juvenile court’s judgment changing the permanency plan from reunification to adoption.1 The court took jurisdiction over T because mother’s substance abuse interfered with her ability to safely parent T. Mother and T, together, make three arguments that contest the juvenile court’s change of the permanency plan to adoption: (1) mother had made sufficient progress in the services provided to her to allow T to safely return home, and, as a consequence, a compelling reason existed to determine that filing a termination petition…