IN INTEREST OF WM

No. C-88-13.

778 P.2d 1106 (1989)

In the Interest of WM, a Minor Child. JW, Appellant (Respondent), v. STATE of Wyoming, ex rel. LARAMIE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC ASSISTANCE AND SOCIAL SERVICES, Appellee (Petitioner).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

Rehearing Denied August 25, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas J. Mickey, Cheyenne, for appellant.

Joseph B. Meyer, Atty. Gen., Peter J. Mulvaney, Deputy Atty. Gen., Richard E. Dixon, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Rodger McDaniel, McDaniel & Tiedeken, Cheyenne, guardian ad litem.

Before CARDINE, C.J., and THOMAS, URBIGKIT, MACY and GOLDEN, JJ.


THOMAS, Justice.

The issue to be resolved in this case is whether a misinterpretation or misapplication of a statute relating to the entry of a decree of disposition placing a child in accordance with the statutes relating to juvenile courts deprived the court of jurisdiction and caused its decree to be void. The question is presented in the context of the claim of the appellant, the child's grandmother, that the district court sitting as the juvenile court erred...

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