Parties to proceedings
- rights of limited participation
- status of grandparents
- interpreters
Source:
Section 419B.875 — Parties to proceedings; rights of limited participation; status of grandparents; interpreters, https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors419B.html
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Notes of Decisions
Where guardian ad litem appears on behalf of incapacitated parent and objects to summary termination of parental rights, court may not summarily adjudicate termination petition but must proceed to full adversarial trial. State ex rel Juvenile Dept. v. Cooper, 188 Or App 588, 72 P3d 674 (2003)
“Right to participate” under this section includes incarcerated parent’s right to testify at permanency hearing on own behalf via telephone from place of incarceration. Representation by counsel does not satisfy right to participate. Dept. of Human Services v. D.J., 259 Or App 638, 314 P3d 998 (2013)
Juvenile court denied father’s right to participate, as required under this section, when court proceeded with hearing in father’s absence, after being unable to arrange for father’s participation by telephone, in final day of permanency hearing at which father’s testimony was critical to presentation of evidence that court would have considered in making determination about whether to change permanency plan. Dept. of Human Services v. A.E.R., 278 Or App 399, 374 P3d 1018 (2016)