State ex rel. Juvenile Department v. L. V.

In this dependency case, father appeals a judgment entered after a permanency hearing. The juvenile court found that the Department of Human Services (DHS) had made reasonable efforts to make it possible for father to care for his two-year-old daughter, A, but it concluded that father had not yet made sufficient progress and declined to order placement with father or to order a family-decision meeting to implement transition of A to father’s care. Father assigns error to the court’s failure to so order and to its designation of a concurrent plan of guardianship. We review the record de novo,…