MATTER OF WAYNE R.N.

No. 10212.

757 P.2d 1333 (1988)

107 N.M. 341

In the Matter of the Termination of Parental Rights of WAYNE R.N. and Rebecca R.N., with eespect to Mikul R.N. and Wayne R.N., Jr., Children. STATE of New Mexico, ex rel. HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT, Petitioner-Appellee, v. WAYNE R.N. and Rebecca R.N., his wife, Respondents-Appellants.

Court of Appeals of New Mexico.

June 2, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jennifer A. Salisbury, Gen. Counsel, Susan K. Rehr, Ernest Pacheco, Assistants Gen. Counsel, Human Services Dept., Santa Fe, for petitioner-appellee.

Robert S. Skinner, Raton, for respondents-appellants.

Judy Lewis, Oklahoma Indian Legal Services, Oklahoma City, Okl., Gary Alsup, Clayton, Guardian Ad Litem.

Mary Lou Carson, Indian Pueblo Legal Services, Inc., San Juan Pueblo, for the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, amicus curiae.


OPINION

MINZNER, Judge.

Respondents appeal from the judgment of the trial court terminating their parental rights. Although in other contexts New Mexico law requires that grounds for termination be proved by clear and convincing evidence, In re Adoption of Doe, 98 N.M. 340, 648 P.2d 798 (Ct.App. 1981), in termination proceedings involving parental rights to a child subject to the Indian...

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