Ray Ellis, Appellant v. Arkansas Department of Human Services and C.e., a Minor Child, Appellee — Danielson, J…

Summary

Justice Danielson dissented from the majority's resolution of a permanency-planning appeal, arguing that the specific permanency-planning statute required the court to prioritize adoption over permanent custody with a relative when consistent with the child's best interests. He maintained that the record supported keeping C.E. with his long-term foster parents pending a termination hearing because the child was bonded to them and his siblings, while his uncle was a stranger living in Germany. He also argued that the majority improperly relied on an unpreserved failure to hold a review hearing. The dissent does not state the majority's disposition.