In the Interest of K.S.

P.J.S. and B.S. are parents of a child, K.S., who was three years old at the time the juvenile officer of the Circuit Court of Greene County, Missouri, filed the petition that produced this appeal. The juvenile division of the circuit court (the trial court) entered an order finding that the child was “in need of the care, protection and services of the Court.” It then, “on [the] Court’s own motion,” continued the “[d]ispositional hearing.” P.J.S. and B.S. attempt to appeal from that order. For the reasons that follow, the appeal must be dismissed.

The attorney for the juvenile officer filed a…