In the Interest of M. C. J.

Johnson, Chief Judge.

In September 1997, the mother of then two-year-old M. C. J. and five-month-old R. A. J. petitioned the juvenile court to terminate the parental rights of the children’s father, who is serving a fifty-year sentence for four counts of aggravated assault. The juvenile court granted the petition and terminated his parental rights. The father appealed, asserting in one of his enumerations that the juvenile *853court lacked jurisdiction over the case. The guardian ad litem, who had recommended that the father’s rights not be terminated, filed a brief asserting the same arguments as…