State ex rel. Juvenile Department v. K. L.

Mother appeals from an order that the trial court issued after a permanency hearing under ORS 419B.476.1 In its order, the court determined that the Department of Human Services/Community Human Services — Child Welfare Division (DHS) should implement its concurrent plan of adoption for mother’s children rather than continuing to plan for their reintegration into her home. Mother raises a number of issues on appeal; we conclude that in these specific circumstances, the trial court should have granted DHS’s request for a 90-day continuance of the hearing and, therefore, reverse.

We state the…