Opinion
Nos. 142566.
March 23, 2011.
Court of Appeals No. 297447.
Leave to Appeal Granted March 23, 2011.
The parties shall include among the issues to be briefed (1) whether the Wayne Circuit Court, Family Division, erred in ordering the respondent-father to comply with a treatment plan in the absence of an adjudication of unfitness; (2) whether the so-called "one parent" doctrine, first adopted in In re CR, 250 Mich App 185 (2001), should be upheld; (3) whether the respondent-father's challenge to the trial court's assumption of jurisdiction constitutes an improper collateral attack on the trial court's exercise of jurisdiction, where he had an opportunity to bring a direct appeal from the trial court's initial dispositional order, which required him to comply with a treatment plan, but he did not do so, see In re Hatcher, 443 Mich 426, 444 (1993); MCR 3.993(A)(1); (4) whether the trial court committed plain error in failing to hold a permanency planning hearing before directing the petitioner to file a supplemental petition seeking termination; (5) whether the trial court clearly erred in finding that clear and convincing evidence was presented to support termination under at least one of the statutory grounds alleged, MCL 712A.19b (3)(c)(i), (g), or (j); and (6) whether the trial court clearly erred in finding that termination was in the children's best interests, MCL 712A.19b(5), without determining whether the children were of a sufficient age to give their views regarding termination, MCL 712A.19a(3), and without considering whether termination was appropriate given that the children were being cared for by a relative, MCL 712A.19a(6)(a).