Opinion
Case No. 20061161-CA.
Filed February 1, 2007. (Not For Official Publication).
Appeal from Third District Juvenile, Salt Lake Department, 460638 The Honorable C. Dane Nolan.
Jose A. Loayza, Taylorsville, for Appellant.
Mark L. Shurtleff and Carol L.C. Verdoia, Salt Lake City, for Appellee.
Martha Pierce, Salt Lake City, Guardian Ad Litem.
Before Judges GREENWOOD, BILLINGS, and ORME.
MEMORANDUM DECISION
R.C. (Father) appeals from a juvenile court order terminating reunification services and setting a permanency goal of adoption for B.C., his daughter. Because the order appealed is not a final order, this court lacks jurisdiction and must dismiss the appeal.
This court has previously held that certain types of permanency orders are not final appealable orders. See In re A.F., 2006 UT App 200, ¶ 10, 138 P.3d 65, cert. granted, No. 20060648-SC, 2006 Utah LEXIS 190 (Utah Sept. 20, 2006). Permanency orders that terminate reunification services and set a goal of adoption are interlocutory in nature because further action is clearly contemplated. See id. The order Father appeals from is just this type of order. As a result, this court lacks jurisdiction and must dismiss the appeal. See id.
Dismissed.
Pamela T. Greenwood, Associate Presiding Judge, Judith M. Billings, Judge, Gregory K. Orme, Judge