Department of Social & Health Services v. Brown

In a dependency proceeding, the trial court found Timothy Brown, Sr.’s son to be a dependent child and *838entered a dispositional order.1 Brown appealed from the dispositional order to challenge the finding of dependency. But the Court of Appeals determined that the dependency finding was not appealable and treated the matter as a motion for discretionary review. And determining that the trial court committed no obvious or probable error, the court denied review. We grant review of the Court of Appeals decision and hold that, although the court erroneously treated the appeal as a motion for…