IN INTEREST OF J.R.

No. 91-47.

478 N.W.2d 409 (1991)

In the Interest of J.R., A Child. Appeal of D.R., Mother.

Court of Appeals of Iowa.

September 24, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerry Zimmermann of Johnston, Larson, Potterfield, Zimmermann & Nathanson, Cedar Rapids, for appellant mother.

Bonnie J. Campbell, Atty. Gen., John M. Parmeter and Judy Sheirbon, Asst. Attys. Gen., for appellee State.

Michael W. Kennedy of Barker, Cruise, Kennedy, Houghton & Foster, Iowa City, guardian ad litem for the child [appellee].

Before OXBERGER, C.J., and SCHLEGEL and HAYDEN, JJ.


OXBERGER, Chief Judge.

The child in question is a boy born in November 1987. His mother was seventeen years old and unmarried at the time of his birth. The father is not known and has never contacted the child.

At the time of the child's birth, the mother was under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, having been adjudicated herself a child in need of assistance. For about the first eleven months of his life, the mother cared for the child. Soon after the...

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