Local Juvenile Court Rule 4.1
                    INVOKING JURISDICTION OF JUVENILE COURT


    (A)  Generally.  Juvenile Court jurisdiction is invoked over a proceeding to
terminate a parent-child relationship by filing a petition.

    (B)  New and Separate Cause Number.  All petitions to terminate a parent-child
relationship filed with the court shall be assigned a new and separate cause
number, and the court clerk shall open a file separate from any dependency file.


[Adopted effective April 1, 1988, Amended effective September 1, 2006]