STATE EX REL. JUV. D. OF MULTNOMAH v. McMaster

On October 31, 1973 the juvenile court terminated parental rights to the seven-year-old child Linda, after a hearing in August 1973. This is the parents’ appeal from that judgment. The child had been made a ward of the court in June 1972, after hearing and based upon a petition dated December 8, 1972. The June 1972 hearing and another in January 1973 had resulted in continuing foster care for the child, and the court set up detailed and specific warnings in the order after each hearing as to the steps the parents must take to avoid termination. The only question on appeal is whether there was…