In Re the Guardianship of J.N.H.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

LONG, J.

C.H. is a mother whose parental rights in respect of her son Jesse, were terminated in 1998 as a result of her inability to overcome her drug and alcohol addictions and provide a safe home for him. She challenges a trial court order that denied her motion, made pursuant to Rule 4:50, to set aside the termination judgment. She contends that her circumstances and those of Jesse have changed dramatically in the four years since her rights were terminated, and that because no adoption has occurred the trial court erred in concluding that those…