MATTER OF J.B.

No. 95-492.

923 P.2d 1096 (1996)

In The Matter of J.B., Youth in Need of Care.

Supreme Court of Montana.

Decided September 19, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chris J. Nelson, Billings, for appellant.

Joseph P. Mazurek, Attorney General, Cregg W. Coughlin, Assistant Attorney General, Helena, Dennis Paxinos, Yellowstone County Attorney, Marcia Good Sept, Deputy Yellowstone County Attorney; Damon L. Gannett, Gannett Law Firm, Billings, guardian ad litem, for respondent.


HUNT, Justice.

This is an appeal from the judgment of the Thirteenth Judicial District Court, Yellowstone County, declaring J.B. a youth in need of care and granting continued temporary custody of J.B. to the Montana Department of Family Services through May 1996.

We reverse and remand.

We address the following issue as dispositive:

Did the District Court err in granting continued temporary custody...

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