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Aleise H. v. Dep’t of Child Safety, ¶ 9 (App. 2018) (internal citation omitted).

Aleise H. v. Dep’t of Child Safety, ¶ 9 (App. 2018) (internal citation omitted).

Waiver occurs through “acts inconsistent with an intent to assert the right.” Id.; accord Aleise H. v. Dep’t of Child Safety, -73 ¶¶ 11-13 (App. 2018) (citing cases).

Moreover, “Logan B. noted that ‘[t]he waiver doctrine is not “an unalterable rule”’ and ‘the decision to find waiver is discretionary.’” Aleise H. v. Dep’t of Child Safety, ¶ 12 (App. 2018) (quoting Logan B., 244 Ariz. at 536, ¶¶ 11, 9); see also Aleise H., 245 Ariz. at 573, ¶ 13 (“Because the decision to find waiver is discretionary, in the exercise of that discretion, on the record presented and to prevent avoidable delay, this court concludes that [m]other has waived any claim s

Because both parents raised several objections to DCS’ provision of services before the superior court, and because “the decision to find waiver is discretionary,” Aleise H. v. Dep’t of Child Safety, ¶ 13 (App. 2018) (citation omitted), this court addresses Mother and Father’s substantive arguments, in turn.

Cf. Aleise H. v. Dep’t of Child Safety, ¶ 13 (App. 2018) (parent waived the argument that court did not make a best-interests finding).

¶16 Father also argues the superior court’s findings “lack the requisite specificity.” Father failed to raise the issue with the superior court, and “generally, failure to raise an argument in the superior court waives the issue on appeal.” Aleise H. v. Dep’t of Child Safety, ¶ 12 (App. 2018) (citation omitted).