MAYFIELD, Judge.
The Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS) appeals from the order of the trial court which granted appellee Quinton Wayne Dearman's motion to dismiss its "Petition for Emergency Custody" on the basis of collateral estoppel.
Quinton Dearman and his wife (now Oleta Colleen Brooks) were divorced by a decree entered April 22, 1987. Custody of the parties' two girls, J.D., born November 5, 1980, and K.D., born August 30, 1984, was awarded...
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