Edwards v. Arkansas Department of Human Services

The expedition of the appellate process is our stated goal in dependency-neglect cases. Ashcroft v. Ark. Dep’t of Human Servs., 2009 Ark. 461, 2009 WL 3162287 (per curiam) (citing Ratliff v. Ark. Dep’t of Health & Human Servs., 371 Ark. 534, 268 S.W.3d 322 (2007)); see also Schubert v. Ark. Dep’t of Human Servs., 2009 Ark. 596, 357 S.W.3d 458. Rather than adhering to this important policy in matters involving children, the majority chooses to parse words and to reach a result that is both illogical and inconsistent with this court’s caselaw. I dissent.

In this ease, the circuit court denied…