State v. L. C.

The state appeals from permanency judgments concerning two children. In those judgments, the juvenile court changed the permanency plan for the children from “APPLA” — that is, “another planned permanent living arrangement”1 — to adoption and ordered the Department of Human Services (DHS) to file petitions to terminate mother’s and father’s parental rights; the court declined to find that DHS had made reasonable efforts. In this unusual case, father and mother support, while DHS opposes, a permanency plan of adoption. We conclude that, because the record as of the permanency hearing shows…