Branch v. Kelly

This is an appeal by the maternal grandmother, who is the petitioner, from an order of the Multnomah County juvenile court, making the subject children wards of the court. Her disagreement with the court’s action is not in the wardship, but rather, that the court left the children in the physical custody of their mother, who is her daughter, with supervision for six months by the Children’s Services Division (CSD). The only question on appeal is whether the facts justified the court’s disposition of the matter.

The grandmother, who had herself given the children’s mother an unstable…