In Interest Of B.T.B.

HARRIS, Judge:

¶ 1 V.T.B. (Father) appeals the juvenile court's order terminating his parental rights to his children, B.T.B. and B.Z.B. He contends that termination was not "strictly necessary" in this case, for various reasons. Father's arguments compel us to directly analyze the meaning of the phrase "strictly necessary," as used in Utah Code section 78A-6-507(1), and require us to examine how that relatively new statutory admonition fits with the historical two-part test we have long applied in termination of parental rights cases.

¶ 2 In order to comprehensively answer these questions, we…