State ex rel. State Office for Services to Children & Families v. Mendez

The state appeals the trial court’s dismissal of its petition to terminate the parental rights of mother and father to three of their minor children. Because the trial court granted mother and father’s motions for dismissal before the close of all the evidence, we review “whether, on the record as a whole, the state introduced sufficient evidence to establish a prima facie case for termination of mother and father’s parental rights.”1 State ex rel SOSCF v. Cox, 152 Or App 756, 763, 954 P2d 1277 (1998). We conclude that the state established a prima facie case and, therefore, reverse and…