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        "text": "ELMORE, Judge.\nRespondent-mother (respondent) appeals from a permanency planning review order entered 25 August 2004 continuing legal and physical custody of her son, C.L.S., with the McDowell County Department of Social Services (DSS). Since this order is not ap-pealable as defined by N.C. Gen. Stat. \u00a7 7B-1001, we dismiss respondent\u2019s appeal.\nBy an order entered 28 February 2003, custody of C.L.S. was given to DSS. That custody was continued through several additional orders, including the 25 August 2004 order from which respondent appeals. By an order entered 5 December 2003, DSS was relieved of reunification efforts with respondent-mother, although continued efforts to reunify the child with his father. Thus, prior to the 24 June and 19 August 2004 hearings from which the 25 August 2004 order arises, respondent did not have custody of her son and the trial court had previously ceased reunification \u00e9fforts. The 25 August 2004 permanency planning order, issued pursuant to a hearing on motions for review (in accord with section 7B-906) and permanency planning (in accord with section 7B-907), determined that 1) custody should continue with DSS, 2) the permanent plan for the child should be adoption, 3) DSS should pursue termination of parental rights, and 4) visitation should be ceased pending a hearing on a petition for termination of parental rights.\nThis order is appealable only if it is \u201cfinal,\u201d and final orders are those that: 1) find the absence of jurisdiction; 2) determine the action and prevent a judgment from which appeal may be taken; 3) are dis-positional orders entered after an adjudication that a juvenile is abused, neglected, or dependent; or 4) modify custodial rights. N.C. Gen. Stat. \u00a7 7B-1001 (2003). We have previously discussed aspects of section 7B-1001 in In re Weiler, 158 N.C. App. 473, 581 S.E.2d 134 (2003), and In re 170 N.C. App. 157, 611 S.E.2d 888, disc. review denied, 359 N.C. 632, 615 S.E.2d 865 (2005). In In re Weiler, this Court held that an appeal from a permanency planning review order that altered the minor\u2019s permanent plan from reunification to adoption and termination of parental rights was in fact a \u201cfinal\u201d order under N.C. Gen. Stat. \u00a7 7B-1001(3) (2003). See In re Weiler, 158 N.C. App. at 476-77, 581 S.E.2d at 136-37. However, in In re B.N.H., we determined that In re Weiler was limited to its facts, declining to extend its holding to all dispositional orders. In re B.N.H., 170 N.C. App. at 161-62, 611 S.E.2d at 891. Instead, the Court held that:\nthe suggestion that parents have an immediate appeal of right from every review order, or every initial and subsequent permanency planning order, because of the language in G.S. \u00a7 7B-1001(3): (1) contradicts the language and plain meaning of the statute; (2) frustrates the stated legislative purpose of achieving permanency for children in a timely manner; (3) does not serve the interests of children within the jurisdiction of our juvenile court; (4) is not essential to protect the rights and interests of parents; and (5) frustrates our courts\u2019 ability to meet the needs of children.\nId. at 161, 611 S.E.2d at 890.\nThe reasoning of that Court controls this case as well. Just as in In re B.N.H., respondent here appeals from a permanency planning order that continued the custody of the child with DSS and stated that the permanent plan would be adoption. Unlike the order in In re Weiler, where the actual order appealed from changed the status quo of the relationship between the parents and the minor, here there is no change in the status quo. Custody of the minor was given to DSS by a previous order, thus the order appealed from did not alter the disposition of the child. See N.C. Gen. Stat. \u00a7 7B-903(a) (2003). As stated above, to read \u201corder of disposition\u201d in section 7B-1001 as broadly as necessary for respondent to appeal the order here would essentially make all orders following adjudication appealable, thereby frustrating the objectives of the Juvenile Code.\nDismissed.\nJudges McCULLOUGH and LEVINSON concur.\n. As of 1 October 2005, this section was modified by the General Assembly. See 2005 N.C. Sess. Laws ch. 398, \u00a7\u00a7 10 and 19. Since these revisions were not in effect at the filing of respondent\u2019s action or the petition in her case, we do not apply the revised section 7B-1001. See id. \u00a7 19.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "Michael E. Casterline for respondent-appellant.",
      "Goldsmith, Goldsmith & Dews, P.A., by James W. Goldsmith, for petitioner-appellee.",
      "James C. Callahan for guardian ad litem."
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    "head_matter": "IN THE MATTER OF: C.L.S., Minor Child\nNo. COA05-308\n(Filed 20 December 2005)\nAppeal and Error\u2014 appealability \u2014 permanency planning order \u2014 no change in status quo\nThe trial court did not err by dismissing respondent mother\u2019s appeal from a permanency planning order entered 25 August 2004 continuing legal and physical custody of her son with the Department of Social Services and stating that the permanent plan would be adoption, because this order is not appealable as defined by N.C.G.S. \u00a7 7B-1001 since there was no change in the status quo.\nAppeal by respondent-mother from order entered 25 August 2004 by Judge Mark E. Powell in McDowell County District Court. Heard in the Court of Appeals 20 October 2005.\nMichael E. Casterline for respondent-appellant.\nGoldsmith, Goldsmith & Dews, P.A., by James W. Goldsmith, for petitioner-appellee.\nJames C. Callahan for guardian ad litem."
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