State ex rel. Juvenile Department v. Rivers

Appellants (the Rivers) seek to adopt a child who had been in their foster care for almost three years. Their adoption request was denied by CSD and the child was placed in another home for adoption. Both the Rivers and child appeal from a juvenile court order which, inter alia, dismissed their jurisdictional petition that alleged that CSD was endangering the conditions and circumstances of the child, dismissed their petition for judicial review of CSD’s denial of their adoption request, and ruled that CSD’s adoptive plan was consistent with the best interests of the child, was not an abuse…