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MATTER OF GUARDIANSHIP OF J.W.

No. 21-0348.

991 N.W.2d 143 (2023)

In the MATTER OF the GUARDIANSHIP OF J.W., Minor Child. Jacob Van Cleaf, Proposed Guardian, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed May 26, 2023.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jacob van Cleaf (argued), Des Moines, appellant, pro se.

Alexis R. Dahlhauser (argued) of Neighborhood Law Group of Iowa, P.C., West Des Moines, for appellee mother.

Oxley, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which Christensen, C.J., and Waterman and McDermott, JJ., joined. Mansfield, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part, in which McDonald, J., joined. May, J., took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.

In December 2020, Attorney Jacob van Cleaf filed a pro se petition to establish an involuntary guardianship of J.W., the (then) nine-year-old daughter of his former client, whom we will refer to as "Mother." See Iowa Code § 232D.204 (2020). Not only was Mother van Cleaf's former...

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