In re D.L.

TYSON, Judge.

Shevalo Laney (“Laney”) and Edward Dewight Little (“Little”) (collectively, “respondents”) appeal from the trial court’s order entered following a permanency planning hearing. We reverse the trial court’s order as it applies to Laney’s appeal, and reverse and remand as the order applies to Little’s appeal.

I. Background

On 23 July 2001, Iredell County Department of Social Services (“DSS”) filed a juvenile petition alleging that D.L. and A.L. (collec*576tively, “the children”) were neglected juveniles. Laney, mother of both minor children, and Little, father of D.L. and caretaker of…