In Re Blessen H.

BARBERA, Judge.

This appeal presents the question whether a court may declare a child in need of assistance (“CINA”) by relying on the parties’ agreed upon facts, without an on-the-record knowing and intelligent waiver by the parent of the right to a contested adjudicatory hearing. In this case, appellant, Tynetta H., was present and represented by counsel at a combined CINA adjudication and disposition hearing concerning her daughter, Blessen H. At the hearing, appellant’s counsel stated that appellant agreed to the facts contained in the CINA petition prepared by the Montgomery County…