Department of Human Services v. A. J. M.

The dispositive issue in this dependency case is whether, after the filing of mother’s notice of appeal from the original permanency judgment, the trial court had authority to issue a “corrected permanency judgment” to include a brief description of the services that Department of Human Services (DHS) had provided with regard to the case plan. Because we conclude that the trial court did have that authority, and that the corrected permanency judgment it entered cured the deficiency in the original judgment, we affirm.

On April 26, 2012, the juvenile court entered a permanency judgment changing…