Trisha A. v. Department of Child safety/l.A./l.A.

¶33 Twenty-five minutes. That is how quickly the State of Arizona can permanently dissolve a parent's legal relationship with her children. Not only after a full and fair evidentiary hearing intended and designed for that purpose, but, as here, during a routine status conference hastily converted into a final termination proceeding. Such a truncated proceeding and its consequences are intolerable in a free society that values the family relationship and guarantees due process of law. Because our law, properly construed, provides that a parent need only show good cause for her absence from a…