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IN RE P.L.

No. 09-1036.

778 N.W.2d 33 (2010)

In the Interest of P.L., Minor Child, O.L.-V., Father, Appellant, State of Iowa, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

January 29, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew R. Metzgar of Rhinehart Law, P.C., Sioux City, for appellant-father.

Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Janet L. Hoffman, Katherine S. Miller-Todd, and Bruce Kempkes, Assistant Attorneys General, Patrick Jennings, County Attorney, and David Dawson, Assistant County Attorney, for appellee-State.

Jessica Knoll, Sioux City, for mother.

Marchelle Denker of Sioux City Juvenile Office, Sioux City, Guardian Ad Litem for minor child.

Gerald Denney, Niobrara, NE, for Santee Sioux Nation.

WIGGINS, Justice.

In this case, we must decide if the juvenile court was correct in terminating a father's parental rights. In our de novo review of the record, we determine the juvenile court properly terminated the father's parental rights. Therefore, we vacate the decision of the court of appeals and affirm the judgment of the juvenile court.

I. Prior Proceedings.

The juvenile court found by clear and convincing evidence that the father's parental...

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