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In the Interest of K. N. C. et al, children

Juvenile court was proper forum to adjudicate custodial grandmother's petition to terminate the mother's parental rights to two of her children.

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The juvenile court terminated the natural mother’s parental rights to W. J. C., her thirteen-year-old son, and K. N. C., her six-year-old daughter. The mother appeals, arguing that the juvenile court lacked subject matter jurisdiction over the proceeding, erroneously failed to continue the termination hearing, and considered improper evidence. She further contends that the clear and convincing evidence does not support the termination order. For reasons that follow, we affirm. In reviewing a parent’s challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence in a termination proceeding, “we view the evidence in a light most favorable to the juvenile court’s ruling and determine whether a rational trier of fact could have found by clear and convincing evidence that the parent’s rights should have been terminated.”1 In making this determination, we do not weigh the evidence or resolve credibility disputes, but defer to the juvenile court’s factual findings.2

Viewed in this manner, the record shows that the children’s father died in 1996. In October 1998, the children’s paternal grandmother reported to authorities that the mother was acting violently toward the children. The juvenile court entered an emergency shelter care order on October 30, 1998, placing the children in the temporary emergency custody of the grandmother. Almost one month later, the court found the children to be deprived, awarded temporary custody to the grandmother, and established a visitation schedule for the mother. The mother apparently did not appeal the deprivation order.

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