Department of Human Services v. G. E.

How courts have described this case

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• reversing and remand- ing where juvenile court, in denying the mother’s motion to dismiss, “may have based its decision on some facts that are extrinsic to the jurisdictional judgment”
• “In the original judgment, mother was faulted for recklessly exposing [the child] to deadly weapons; here, mother is faulted for inattention.”
• juvenile court may not rely on allegation that is extrinsic to the original jurisdiction judgment
• It is “axiomatic that a juvenile court may not continue a wardship based on facts that have never been alleged in a jurisdictional petition.”
• court may not continue dependency jurisdiction over a child based on facts not alleged in or inferable from jurisdictional petition, where reliance on those facts affects substantial rights of the parent

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).