Rock County Department of Social Services v. K.K.

This is an appeal from an order dismissing Rock County's petition to terminate C.D.K.'s parental rights to K.K. and T.K.1 The trial court initially determined C.D.K.'s parental rights should be terminated. Upon reconsideration, however, the court concluded that, because only two of six dispositional orders contained the warnings required by sec. 48.356, Stats.,2 *435the county could not establish that grounds existed under sec. 48.415, Stats., for termination of parental rights. We conclude that, in termination cases for abandonment under sec. 48.415(1), Stats., only a single order need include…