MATTER OF M.M.

No. 81-472.

650 P.2d 784 (1982)

In the Matter of M.M., Youth in Need of Care.

Supreme Court of Montana.

Decided September 9, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ann C. German, Missoula, for appellant.

Robert L. Deschamps, III, County Atty., Missoula, for petitioner/respondent, State.

Russell E. Cater, Dept. of S.R.S., Helena, Terry A. Wallace, Missoula, for R.M.

John E. Riddiough, Missoula, for guardian ad litem.


HASWELL, Chief Justice.

Following a series of hearings in a child abuse and neglect proceeding, the District Court of Missoula County determined that M.M. was a youth in need of care and awarded her father permanent custody with specified visitation rights granted her mother. The mother appeals. We affirm.

M.M. is the only child of the marriage. She was sixteen-months-old at the time of the District Court's order from which this appeal is taken. Following...

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