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CHAMPAGNE v. WELFARE DIV. OF NEV. STATE DEPT.

Nos. 13677, 14100, 14653 and 14906.

691 P.2d 849 (1984)

Paul CHAMPAGNE and Pamela Champagne, Appellants, v. WELFARE DIVISION OF the NEVADA STATE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES, Respondent. Judith Ann FELSEN, Appellant, v. NEVADA STATE WELFARE DIVISION, Respondent. Melvin MURPHY and Jeenean Gertrude Snyder Murphy, Appellants, v. The WELFARE DIVISION OF the STATE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES, Respondent. Cheryl Tolliver HICKERSON, Appellant, v. Don PINSON and Kathryn Pinson, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

December 6, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert W. Lueck, Las Vegas, for appellants Champagne and Champagne.

D. Brian McKay, Atty. Gen., Carson City, Terrance P. Marren, Israel L. Kunin, Daniel Hollingsworth, Deputy Attys. Gen., Las Vegas, for respondent Welfare Div.

John G. Watkins, Las Vegas, for appellant Felsen.

Gerald W. Hardcastle, Las Vegas, for appellants Murphy and Murphy.

Thomas E. Shulman, Las Vegas, for appellant Hickerson.

Gardner & Stoebling and R. Michael Gardner, Las Vegas, for respondents Pinson and Pinson.

OPINION

SPRINGER, Justice.

This opinion considers four appeals in which the parental rights of fathers and mothers have been permanently terminated by judicial decree. Severance of parental rights is an exercise of awesome power, a power which we "question closely" as we consider the four cases before us. Casper v. Huber, 85 Nev. 474, 477, 456 P.2d 436, 438 (1969).

TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS; APPLICABLE...

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