Department of Human Services v. D. L. H.

This is a dependency case in which mother and father separately appeal the combined dispositional and permanency judgment of the juvenile court changing the permanency plan of the children, J and A, from reunification to adoption. In those dispositional/permanency judgments, the juvenile court determined that the Department of Human Services (DHS) had made reasonable efforts to reunify J with mother and active efforts to reunify A with mother and father. Because we conclude that DHS had failed to make active efforts to reunify A with father, we reverse in part and remand in part.

I. FACTS

The…