Cabinet for Health and Family Services v. N.B.D.

OPINION OF THE COURT BY JUSTICE D. LAMBERT

The Cabinet for Health and Family Services (hereinafter Cabinet) seeks reversal of the Court of Appeals, which held that the Campbell Family Court erred in declining to conduct a Special Immigrant Juvenile (hereinafter SIJ) hearing at the disposition phase of a dependency, neglect and abuse case regarding N.M.D.J. (hereafter N.), an unaccompanied Guatemalan child. After thorough review, we reverse the Court of Appeals.

I. Facts

N. was born in Guatemala in 2001 and will turn eighteen in July 2019. She is now the mother of two infant children, having one…