A.M.B. v. Indiana Department of Child Services

OPINION

MATHIAS, Judge.

A.M.B. ("'Mother") appeals the involuntary termination of her parental rights to her three children, A.B., J.B., and MM. Mother raises several allegations of error, including an assertion that she was denied due process, of law when she was not permitted to testify during the termination hearing. Although Mother was twenty minutes late to the termination hearing, which itself commenced more than an hour behind schedule, we believe that under the unique facts and cireumstances before us, she should have been afforded the opportunity to testify. In light of the…