R.C. v. STATE, DHSS

Nos. S-2363, S-2386 and S-2410.

760 P.2d 501 (1988)

R.C. and T.C., Parents, Appellants/Cross-Appellees, v. STATE OF Alaska, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES, Appellees/Cross-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

August 12, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel L. Callahan, Schendel & Callahan, Fairbanks, for appellant/cross-appellee, T.C.

Susan Downie, Asst. Public Defender, Fairbanks, and Dana Fabe, Public Defender, Anchorage, for appellant/cross-appellee, R.C.

D. Rebecca Snow, Asst. Atty. Gen., Fairbanks, Grace Berg Schaible, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellees/cross-appellants.

Gerard R. LaParle, Law Firm of Gerard R. LaParle, Fairbanks, guardian ad litem for Minor Children.

Before MATTHEWS, C.J., and RABINOWITZ, BURKE, COMPTON and MOORE, JJ.


OPINION

BURKE, Justice.

This appeal is from an order terminating the parental rights of T.C. (mother) and R.C. (father) to four minor children, and giving custody to the Department of Health and Social Services (Department).

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The C. family consists of the parents, two thirteen-year-old twin girls from the mother's previous marriage, and two boys from the current marriage, ages nine and six.1 The Department...

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