A.N.B. v. Department of Children & Families

In this private dependency action filed by the maternal grandparents, A.N.B., (“the mother”), appeals an order adjudicating her son, J.N., dependent. J.N. was nineteen days short of his seventeenth birthday when the order was entered on June 7, 2010. A.N.B. claims: (1) that there was insufficient evidence to support the trial court’s finding of dependency; (2) that the trial court improperly based its ruling on the child’s preference; and (3) that the trial court improperly excluded her boyfriend as a witness. We affirm.

With respect to the first issue, while we agree that the trial court’s…