Department of Human Services v. J. M.

In this juvenile dependency case, father and mother appeal a corrected permanency judgment that changed the permanency plan for parents’ child, C, from reunification to adoption. Before the hearing to change the plan, parents moved to dismiss jurisdiction and terminate the wardship. At the hearing, the juvenile court denied parents’ motion to dismiss and changed the plan to adoption based on factual findings related to two jurisdictional allegations: first, that C sustained an unexplained physical injury — a fracture to her tibia — while in parents’ care and, second, that parents’ lack of…