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DS v. DEPT. OF PUBLIC ASSISTANCE & SOCIAL SERVICES

No. CF 2.

607 P.2d 911 (1980)

In the Matter of the Parental Rights to X, Y and Z. DS and RS, Appellants (Respondents below), v. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC ASSISTANCE AND SOCIAL SERVICES, Sheridan, Wyoming, Appellee (Petitioner below).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

Rehearing Denied March 26, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael K. Shoumaker, of Badley, Rasmussen & Shoumaker, P.C., Sheridan, for appellants.

Thomas C. Wilson, County and Prosecuting Atty. for Sheridan County, Wyoming, for appellee.

Kim D. Cannon, guardian ad litem for X, Y and Z, of Burgess & Davis, Sheridan, filed a brief and appeared in oral argument.

Before RAPER, C.J., and McCLINTOCK, THOMAS, ROSE and ROONEY, JJ.

ROSE, Justice.

Where is there a more sensitive place in the law than that area where courts must undertake to decide whether or not a child will be taken from its mother? We know of none. That is the issue in this appeal. This is a contest for custody of a child, X, between the child's natural mother, DS, and her husband, RS, on the one hand, and the State Department of Public Assistance and Social Services (sometimes referred to as D-PASS), on the other hand. In...

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