PLATZ v. ELKHART COUNTY DEPT. OF WELFARE

No. 20A05-9303-JV-00079.

631 N.E.2d 16 (1994)

In the matter of the Termination of Parental Rights of Karen S. PLATZ and Timothy Clement, Appellants-Respondents, v. ELKHART COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE, Appellee-Petitioner.

Court of Appeals of Indiana, Fifth District.

March 23, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas A. Murto, Murto & Holbrook, Goshen, for appellants-respondents.

Barry A. Chambers, Elkhart, for appellee-petitioner.


RUCKER, Judge.

Appellants/Respondents Karen S. Platz and Timothy Clement (sometimes collectively referred to as "Parents") appeal the involuntary termination of their parental rights to their minor child C.P. We reverse because Appellee/Petitioner Elkhart County Department of Public Welfare (DPW) neither pled nor proved that the child was removed from its parents for at least six (6) months under a dispositional decree.

Platz and Clement are the natural parents...

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