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IN RE R.S.N.

No. 05-0016.

706 N.W.2d 705 (2005)

In the Interest of R.S.N. and R.M.N., Minor Children, J.S. and T.S., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

December 9, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sally B. Frank, Drake University Legal Clinic, and Elizabeth Kellner-Nelson, Student Legal Intern, Des Moines, for appellants.

Jeffrey T. Mains of Mains Law Office, P.L.C., Des Moines, for appellee-mother.

Catherine Levine, Des Moines, for minor children.

WIGGINS, Justice.

The juvenile court taxed reasonable attorney fees and costs against the petitioners, the prevailing parties, in a private involuntary termination of parental rights action. Because there was no statutory authority or controlling appellate decision allowing for the juvenile court to assess reasonable attorney fees and costs against the petitioners, we reverse the judgment of the juvenile court. We, however, remand this case to the juvenile court to...

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