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In the Interest of S. R. C. J.

The juvenile court was not required to consider family members in determining placement of a child after it terminated the mother's parental rights.

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The juvenile court terminated the mother’s parental rights to her child, S. R. C. J., but declined to place the child with the maternal grandmother. We granted the mother’s and grandmother’s applications for discretionary review, and they appeal the juvenile court’s order. The mother argues that insufficient admissible evidence supports the termination of her parental rights, but we find that sufficient admissible evidence supports the juvenile court’s decision. The grandmother argues that the juvenile court considered hearsay; that the juvenile court erred by failing to consider family members for placing the child; that the Department of Family and Children Services failed to comply with certain time limitations in the regulations to the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children, OCGA § 39-4-1 through 39-4-10; and that certain testimony of a case worker at the termination hearing was improperly limited because of time constraints. We hold that sufficient admissible evidence supported the juvenile court’s decision; that the juvenile court did not err in failing to consider the grandmother for placement of the child; that the grandmother has not shown that the regulations to the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children apply; and that the grandmother cannot challenge the limitation of the case worker’s testimony because she did not raise the issue in the juvenile court. We thus affirm.

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