Department of Human Services v. A. W.

In this juvenile dependency case, mother appeals the juvenile court’s judgment asserting jurisdiction over her three-year-old child, A. The Department of Human Services (DHS) concedes that the juvenile court erred in asserting jurisdiction and that the judgment should be reversed. For the reasons explained below, we agree.

When reviewing the juvenile court’s assertion of jurisdiction over a child, “we view the evidence, as supplemented and buttressed by permissible derivative inferences, in the light most favorable to the trial court’s disposition and assess whether, when so viewed, the record…