Department of Human Services v. S. C. T.

In this consolidated appeal, mother and father challenge the juvenile court’s judgments asserting jurisdiction over their children. Parents assign error to the trial court’s decision — based on parents’ absence from the hearing — to overrule their attorneys’ objections to the state’s evidence. Parents argue that they were denied a right to participate in the hearing through their attorneys.1 The Department of Human Services (DHS) disagrees and interjects that, due to the parents’ absence, the judgments are not appealable. We conclude that the judgments are appealable because parents had…