Department of Human Services v. M. J. H.

Mother and father appeal from judgments of the juvenile court that changed the permanency plans for their three children from reunification to adoption. Mother and father both challenge the court’s conclusions that the Department of Human Services (DHS) had made reasonable efforts to reunify the family and that mother had not made sufficient progress to enable the children to return home.1 They also both argue that the juvenile court erred in changing the permanency plans to adoption, while in a separate dependency case involving the same three children, the plans remained reunification.…