Arizona Department of Economic Security v. Reinstein

OPINION

EHRLICH, Judge.

¶ 1 The Arizona Department of Economic Security (“ADES” or “Agency”) has petitioned for relief from a trial court order requiring a jury trial in a case in which it seeks the termination of the rights of Vanna C. and Gabriel T. (“the Parents”) to their children. At issue is a statute that, before January 1,2007, gave a parent the choice of a trial to a court or a trial to a jury in a severance action. On January 1, 2007, the delayed repeal clause of the statute became effective, and a parent thereafter was allowed only a trial to a court. The court ordered that the…