STATE EX REL. JUV. DEPT. v. MERTES

(9511-83313; CA A104498)

986 P.2d 682 (1999)

162 Or. App. 530

In the Matter of James-Levi Mertes, a Minor Child. STATE ex rel. JUVENILE DEPARTMENT OF MULTNOMAH COUNTY, Respondent, v. Tonya MERTES, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Oregon.

Decided September 15, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Emily S. Cohen filed the brief for appellant.

Hardy Myers, Attorney General, Michael D. Reynolds, Solicitor General, and Michael C. Livingston, Assistant Attorney General, filed the brief for respondent.

Before LINDER, Presiding Judge, and BREWER, Judge, and WARREN, Senior Judge.


LINDER, P.J.

In this termination of parental rights proceeding brought pursuant to ORS 419B.500, mother seeks reversal of the juvenile court's judgment terminating her parental rights. We reverse and remand.

Mother failed to appear on November 3, 1998, at one of several pretrial conferences, although she had appeared at all earlier conferences.1 The juvenile court found mother to be in default and advised the state that it could...

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