Department of Human Services v. J. V.-G.

In this juvenile dependency case, father appeals a permanency judgment that denied father’s motion to change the plan for child from adoption to return to parent, and continued the current permanency plan of adoption. Before the hearing to change the plan, father moved to dismiss jurisdiction and terminate the wardship. At the hearing, the juvenile court denied father’s motion to dismiss. Father contends that, in regard to his motion to dismiss, the juvenile court erred in admitting an exhibit that was inadmissible hearsay, and we agree.1 The Department of Human Services (DHS) responds that…