IN INTEREST OF C. AND K

No. 67721.

322 N.W.2d 76 (1982)

In the Interest of C. AND K., Children.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

July 21, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Miller, Atty. Gen., John G. Black, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., and Brent D. Hege, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellant State of Iowa.

Jerry R. Foxhoven of Critelli & Foxhoven, PC, Des Moines, for appellee mother.

Victoria L. Meade of Marks, Marks & Marks, Urbandale, guardian ad litem for the children.

Considered by REYNOLDSON, C. J., and LeGRAND, UHLENHOPP, HARRIS, and LARSON, JJ.


HARRIS, Justice.

This child termination case was brought pursuant to section 232.116(5), The Code 1981. As often happens, the interests of the childrens' mother, herself a child victim of poverty and neglect, are pitted against the needs of her two children. The trial court held that the State failed in its burden to show by clear and convincing evidence that the children could not be returned to their mother's custody. § 232.116(5)(c), The Code. On our de novo...

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