In re A.H.
Appellant challenges the termination of her parental rights. She argues that the juvenile court should have applied the parent-child beneficial relationship exception to overcome the statutory preference for adoption of an adoptable child. But appellant did not appear at the hearing terminating her parental rights, did not ask the juvenile court to apply this exception, and arguably forfeited her right to have the exception considered on appeal. Although we exercise our discretion to consider the exception on appeal, we conclude that it would not have been an abuse of discretion for the juvenile court to have found there was no “compelling reason†to determine that terminating appellant’s parental rights would be detrimental to the child. Therefore, we affirm the order terminating appellant’s parental rights.
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