J.C. v. Department of Children & Family Services

SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.

J.C., the mother of three-year-old G.C. and eighteen-month-old J.C., and H.C., the father of G.C., 1 appeal from final judgments terminating their parental rights to those children. Although there are several other procedural and substantive issues which give us pause as to the legal sufficiency of the proceedings below, we reverse the judgments and remand for further proceedings on the fundamental ground that there was no showing of any statutory basis justifying that drastic remedy as to either child or either parent. With the immaterial distinction that the parents’…