IN RE SJJ

No. C-04-9.

104 P.3d 74 (2005)

2005 WY 3

In the Interest of SJJ and ERJ, II, minor children: SLJ, Appellant (Respondent), v. The State of Wyoming, Department of Family Services, Albany County Field Office, Appellee (Petitioner).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

January 11, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Representing Appellant: Matthew F.G. Castano of Brown & Hiser, LLC, Laramie, Wyoming.

Representing Appellee: Patrick J. Crank, Attorney General; Robin Sessions Cooley, Deputy Attorney General; and Jill E. Kucera, Senior Assistant Attorney General. Argument by Ms. Kucera.

Representing Guardian ad Litem: Devon O'Connell Coleman of Pence & MacMillan, Laramie, Wyoming.

Before HILL, C.J., and GOLDEN, KITE, and VOIGT, JJ., and JAMES, D.J.


KITE, Justice.

[¶ 1] In 2001, the Department of Family Services (DFS) took SJJ and ERJ, II, ages seven and six, from the home of their paternal grandmother where they had been living since 1996 and placed them in protective custody. Just over a year later, DFS filed a petition for termination of parental rights against the mother, SLJ, and the father, ERJ. After a three day trial, the district court determined that SLJ's parental rights1

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