INTEREST OF W.M.

No. 20-1319.

957 N.W.2d 305 (2021)

In the INTEREST OF W.M. and W.D., Minor Children, S.C., Mother, State of Iowa, and W.B., Father, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed April 2, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stuart G. Hoover of Alliance Law Firm, PC, Dubuque, for appellant mother.

Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General, Mary A. Triick , Assistant Attorney General, and Sara Davenport , County Attorney, for appellant State.

Joshua J. Reicks of Schoenthaler, Bartelt, Kahler & Reicks, Maquoketa, for appellant father.

Oxley, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which Christensen, C.J., and Appel, Waterman, and Mansfield, JJ., joined. McDermott, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part in which McDonald, J., joined.


In this case, the juvenile court terminated the parental rights of both of the fathers of two children but denied the State's petition to terminate the mother's parental rights. Instead, the court entered a permanency order appointing the paternal grandmother of one of the boys as the guardian for both. Mom appeals the permanency...

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