IN RE E.D.

No. 11-1729.

812 N.W.2d 712 (2012)

In the interest of E.D., Minor Child, J.E.D., Mother, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Iowa.

February 15, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Neary , Muscatine, for appellant mother.

Brian Metcalf of Metcalf, Conlon & Siering, P.L.C., Muscatine, for father.

Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General, Bruce Kempkes , Assistant Attorney General, Alan Ostergren , County Attorney, and Kathleen Bragg , Assistant County Attorney, for appellee State.

Neva Baker , Muscatine, for intervenor.

Noelle Murray of Stein, Moore & Egerton, L.L.P., Iowa City, for minor child.

Considered by DANILSON, P.J., and TABOR and MULLINS, JJ.


DANILSON, P.J.

A mother appeals from the juvenile court's order adjudicating her daughter, four-year-old E.D., to be a child in need of assistance (CINA) and subsequent dispositional order. The mother argues the juvenile court lacked subject matter jurisdiction to issue any orders concerning the child because Tennessee was the home state of the child. Upon our review, we find the juvenile court (1) properly exercised its temporary emergency jurisdiction under the...

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