Court Opinion

ID: 9718792
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 07:34:03.746673+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:02.595217
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OPINION UPON REHEARING
NEAL, Judge.
Appellee, Hendricks County Department of Public Welfare has filed a document entitled Motion For Stay of Publication of Opinion for a Thirty-Day Period, For Supplementing the Record, and For Rehearing. The reasons stated are that the original record is incomplete, and if the record is properly supplemented, and this court has the entire record before it, a different result will be reached.
We have examined the original brief of the Department and the record. Though it is mentioned by the Department that the Heatons failed to include the transcript presented at some hearing, the Department made no motion to supplement the record at the time of the original consideration of this appeal; nor does it then, or now, tell us what the evidence would have been, or how it would have affected the outcome of the case. Additionally, in its brief, the Department conceded that no CHINS petition was ever filed in the cause, nor was there ever any fact-finding hearing held. It additionally conceded that there was never any formal notice given to the Heatons of other reviews. Such was the basis of the original opinion. It is too late to permit the Department to do what it should have done in the first place.
For the above reasons, the motion and petition for rehearing are denied.
RATLIFF, C.J., and ROBERTSON, J., concur.