Department of Human Services v. L. P. H.

In this juvenile dependency case, mother appeals two judgments involving her son T. The first, entered in the trial court on August 14,2009, asserts jurisdiction over T and commits him to the custody of the Department of Human Services (the jurisdictional judgment); the second, entered on September 17,2009, approves a permanency plan of adoption for T (the permanency judgment). In her first assignment of error, mother challenges the jurisdictional judgment on the ground that the allegations contained in the dependency petition are legally insufficient to establish jurisdiction. We reject that…