K.C. v. Department of Social & Health Services

— The Department of Social and Health Services of the State of Washington (DSHS) seeks to overturn a decision of the Court of Appeals in which that court reversed orders of the Yakima County Juvenile Court terminating K.C.’s parental rights to her four children. The Court of Appeals determined that the orders terminating K.C.’s parental rights were not supported by the juvenile court’s findings of fact. Specifically, the Court of Appeals reached this conclusion because there was no finding by the juvenile court that, at the time of the termination hearing, K.C. was continuing to use…