Department of Human Services v. K. G. A. B.

Mother appeals from a judgment terminating her parental rights to her six-year-old daughter after a hearing conducted in mother’s absence. Mother contends that the Department of Human Services (DHS) failed to properly serve the termination petition and summons when it used the method of service by publication in a newspaper with general circulation in Deschutes County. Mother raises multiple assignments of error, all based on the premise that DHS had information that mother was located in Florida and was required to disclose that information in seeking authorization to serve by publication.…