In re Jessica M.
Annotate this CaseWhen she was seventeen years old, Petitioner filed a petition alleging that she was a neglected and uncared for youth. The trial court dismissed the petition as moot because, two and one-half months after Petitioner filed it, she reached her eighteenth birthday. The appellate court affirmed. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding (1) the trial court lacked statutory authority both to adjudicate Petitioner neglected or uncared-for after she reached the age of eighteen years and to provide her with dispositional relief; and (2) because the court lacked such statutory authority, that court properly concluded that the petition was rendered moot when Petitioner reached her eighteenth birthday.
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