Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services v. Platt

COBB, Judge.

In this dependency action, the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services appeals from an order of the juvenile court adjudicating the agency financially responsible for payment of psychological evaluations of the parents conducted pursuant to court order.

The record reflects that the juvenile court, at a judicial review hearing, placed the parents’ three children with the paternal grandmother and, on its own motion, ordered that the parents each submit to a psychological evaluation within thirty days. The order did not specify who was to pay for such evaluations.

The…