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IN INTEREST OF A.C.

No. 87-43.

415 N.W.2d 609 (1987)

In the Interests of A.C., A.C., S.C., S.C., and J.C., Minor Children, Appellants, K.C., Natural Mother, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

As Corrected December 3, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jane A. Harlan, Newton, for appellants.

Gerald B. Feuerhelm, Des Moines, for appellee natural mother.

Thomas J. Miller, Atty. Gen., Gordon E. Allen, Deputy Atty. Gen., Charles K. Phillips, Asst. Atty. Gen., John Billingsley, Co. Atty., and Clifford D. Wendel, Asst. Co. Atty., for the State.

P. Lewis Pitts, Jr., and Gayle Korotkin, Chapel Hill, N.C., for amicus curiae Christic Institute South.

Considered by HARRIS, P.J., and LARSON, SCHULTZ, LAVORATO, and NEUMAN, JJ.

HARRIS, Presiding Justice.

Five children, ranging in age from three months to ten years, were voluntarily placed under foster care by their mother on March 14, 1985. The placement soon became involuntary and this dispute centers around efforts by the Iowa department of human services to rehabilitate the mother and conflicting efforts by the foster parents to wrest the children from both their mother and the department. The district court, sitting as juvenile court...

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