In re M.G.

¶ 1 In what appears to be an issue of first impression, we are asked to deter*70mine whether a social service agency charged with development and implementation of permanency plans for dependent children may properly petition to involuntarily terminate a mother’s parental rights where the existing placement goal is reunification and where no change of goal to adoption has been previously sought.1 We find that a goal change from reunification to adoption is not a necessary prerequisite to the initiation of involuntary termination proceedings. Moreover, we conclude that the court did not err in…