Court Opinion

ID: 9722560
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 09:39:01.241052+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:36.904389
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DeBRULER, Justice,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent. When a petition is filed in Court to terminate the parent-child relationship involving a child who has been adjudged a delinquent child or a child in need of services, the child is already under the wing of the Court. The new petition calls for the Court to continue its old efforts to provide the child with needed support and services, this time in a new permanent family. When the child has this special court status and the issues previously decided are being brought up anew and mixed with some new issues, I would hold that the petition for termination is not a new action and consequently no new venue rights arise with respect to it. Furthermore, due in great measure to the job of the juvenile courts, the human problems dealt with there, and the fact that the statutory cause only rule has been in existence since 1978, it would be well to declare our rule amended to conform with that of the statute.
SHEPARD, C.J., concurs.