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IN INTEREST OF D.M.

No. 93-992.

516 N.W.2d 888 (1994)

In the Interest of D.M. Jr. and C.M., Minor Children, State of Iowa, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

May 25, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bonnie J. Campbell, Atty. Gen., John M. Parmeter, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Kathrine S. Miller-Todd, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Ralph Marasco, Asst. County Atty., for appellant.

Cory McClure, Youth Law Center, guardian ad litem and attorney for minor children.

Robert Tucker, Des Moines, for resister mother.

Donna R. Beary, Des Moines, for father.

Considered by HARRIS, P.J., and LAVORATO, NEUMAN, ANDREASEN, and TERNUS, JJ.

LAVORATO, Justice.

In this termination of parental rights case, the juvenile court declined to terminate the rights of the natural mother and father to their two children on the grounds of abandonment. The State and the guardian ad litem appealed, and we transferred the case to our court of appeals. The court of appeals, in a 2-1 vote, affirmed the decision of the juvenile court.

We granted further review on the State's application. After an en banc consideration...

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