MLS Properties LLC v. Weld County Board of Equalization

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• holding statutory language “places the onus on the department rather than the parents to identify relatives subject to notification”
• assuming without deciding that a father may object to the DHS’s failure to notify the mother of the proceedings
• noting the father’s disappearance and later refusal to communicate stymied the efforts of DHS to contact the grandmother for placement
• noting we review a court’s ruling on a continuance motion for an abuse of discretion and such motions “shall not be granted except for good cause”
• noting that if a motion to continue for failure to comply with the relative notification requirement had been filed sooner, “the court still would have been in a position to order notification of the [relative] without materially compromising the statutory time period preceding termination”
• finding father suffered no injustice where DHS failed to notify his mother of the removal, after assuming, without deciding, his right to object on behalf of his mother

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).