Marshall County Department of Human Resources v. M.B.

This court’s opinion of January 9, 2015, is withdrawn, and the following is substituted therefor.

These appellate proceedings, initiated by the Marshall County Department of Human Resources (“the Marshall County DHR”) and involving four children of the same parents, concern the appropriateness of a juvenile court’s termination of parental rights as to those children while simultaneously declining to award permanent legal custody of the children to any party.

In May 2013, the Marshall County DHR filed petitions in the Marshall Juvenile Court to terminate the parental rights of M.B. (“the…