Ingle v. Arkansas Department of Human Services

COURTNEY HUDSON GOODSON, Justice.

| Appellant Tonia Ingle brings this appeal from an order entered by the Washington County Circuit Court placing permanent custody of her son, C.N., with his biological father and closing the dependency-neglect case. For reversal, Ingle contends that the circuit court lacked the authority to vest permanent custody in the father and to close the dependency-neglect proceeding, sua sponte, and without notice at the six-month review hearing. She also argues that there is insufficient evidence to support the circuit court’s decision not to return C.N. to her…