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IN RE INTEREST OF KEVIN K.

No. S-06-447.

742 N.W.2d 767 (2007)

274 Neb. 678

In re Interest of KEVIN K., a Child Under 18 Years of Age. State of Nebraska, Appellant, v. Kevin K. and Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Nebraska.

December 21, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kara E. Mickle and Alicia B. Henderson, Deputy Lancaster County Attorneys, for appellant.

Dennis R. Keefe, Lancaster County Public Defender, and Elizabeth Elliott, for appellee Kevin K.

Jon Bruning, Attorney General, and B. Gail Steen, Special Assistant Attorney General, for appellee Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services.

HEAVICAN, C.J., WRIGHT, CONNOLLY, GERRARD, STEPHAN, McCORMACK, and MILLER-LERMAN, JJ.

STEPHAN, J.

Applying a best interests test, a divided panel of the Nebraska Court of Appeals held in this case that the separate juvenile court of Lancaster County erred in terminating its jurisdiction of a juvenile previously adjudicated for habitual truancy.1 After the juvenile reached the age of 16, his mother authorized discontinuance of his enrollment in school pursuant to Neb. Rev.Stat. § 79-201 (Cum.Supp.2006). On further review...

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