In re C.A.R.

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court of the Thirteenth Judicial District, Yellowstone County, Montana, the Honorable Diane G. Barz, presiding, that awarded to the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services custody of the youths C.A.R. and P.J.R. with the authority to assent to adoption.

There is one issue on appeal: whether the trial court abused its discretion in terminating M.R.’s rights as natural mother to C.A.R. and P.J.R. M.R. contended before the District Court that she had recovered from alcoholism and that the recovery signaled her general rehabilitation. This…