Orm v. State

OPINION

HANSEN, Vice-Chief Judge:

Patsy Orm (Appellant), seeks review of the trial court’s order terminating her parental rights. We find the trial court’s determination constitutionally infirm for lack of sufficient notice and reverse.

Our Supreme Court has held parents have a fundamental, constitutionally protected interest in the “continuity of legal bond with their children”. Matter of Delaney, 617 P.2d 886 (Okla.1980). Addressing the constitutional requirement for due process in Matter of C.G., 637 P.2d 66 (Okla.1981), the Supreme Court found:

Due process inexorably commands notice which…