In re Riley B.

Citations

• 342 Conn. 333

Syllabus

The proposed intervenor, J, filed a motion to intervene subsequent to the termination of her parental rights with respect to her minor child, R, in an effort to obtain a posttermination order of visitation with R. J's parental rights had been terminated on the grounds that she failed to achieve a sufficient degree of personal rehabilitation, as required by the applicable statute (§ 17a-112), and that termination was in R's best interest. During the termination proceedings, J did not request visitation with R in the event that her parental rights were terminated. J appealed from the judgment terminating her parental rights but did not request a stay of execution of that judgment pending appeal. More than six months after that appeal had been filed, J filed a motion for visitation, which the trial court denied, concluding that it did not have authority to order visitation after her parental rights were terminated and that, In accordance with the spirit and intent of General Statutes § 46b-142 (b) and Practice Book § 79a-12, the names of the parties involved in this appeal are not disclosed. The records and papers of this case shall be open for inspection only to persons having a proper interest therein and upon order of the Appellate Court. 334 MARCH, 2022 342 Conn. 333 In re Riley B. even if it had such authority, there was no basis for granting visitation under the circumstances. The trial court dismissed her subsequent motion to intervene on grounds of res judicata in light of its decision on her motion for visitation. After the dismissal of J's motion to intervene, the Appellate Court affirmed the judgment terminating J's parental rights. On appeal from the trial court's dismissal of J's motion to inter- vene, held that J's appeal was dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, J having had no colorable claim to intervention in R's juve- nile case as a matter of right: following the termination of her parental rights, J lacked a direct and substantial inter