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  • In re Interest of David M.

    Filed on December 20, 2011
    19 Neb. App. 399, ____ N.W.2d ____
    SUMMARY: An award of GAL attorney’s fees for work performed after the State filed a motion to dismiss prior to adjudication was improper as the GAL lacked the authority to reinitiate the case through a new petition. 
    David, DOB 6/97, Miguel, DOB 9/01, Edwin, 1/05, and [...]

  • In re Interest of Kenyetta C.

    Filed on November 29, 2011
    Not designated for permanent publication, A-11-356
    SUMMARY: A preponderance of the evidence established that keeping the newborn with the mother in a prison nursery is contrary to the child’s welfare based on the mother’s past criminal and child welfare history. 
    Kenyetta, DOB 3/11, was removed from the mother, Crystalynn, immediately after birth after [...]

  • In re Interest of LaKeiara J.

    Filed on November 15, 2011
    Not designated for permanent publication, A-11-159
    SUMMARY: Termination of parental rights was proper where the father had little contact with the child, would be incarcerated past her age of majority, and has a history of drug use and law violations, and where the child had substantial health needs that the father cannot [...]

  • In re Interest of Enrique G.

    Filed on March 24, 2009
    Not designated for permanent publication
    A-08-1136
    SUMMARY: The child comes within the meaning of 43-247(3)(a) because he is at risk for harm due to the father’s failure to pay child support and lack of any evidence that he provided the child with proper parental care and support.  
    Enrique, DOB 5/1/00, is the child [...]

  • In re Interest of Ashantay H.

    Filed on October 14, 2008
    Not designated for permanent publication
    A-08-049
    SUMMARY: The statutory ground for termination where the child must be out of the home 15 of the most recent 22 months requires “clear and convincing evidence of circumstances as compelling and pertinent to a child’s best interests as to those enumerated in the other subsections”, given [...]

  • In re Interest of Maxwell T.

    Filed on September 19, 2006
    15 Neb. App. 47, 721 N.W.2d 676
    SUMMARY: The juvenile court properly exercised its emergency jurisdiction over Maxwell while one parent was incarcerated and the other parent was in alcohol treatment.  Although there was a South Dakota custody order, the Nebraska court could continue its jurisdiction so long as the emergency persisted.  [...]

  • In re Interest of L.V.

    Filed on April 3, 1992
    240 Neb. 404, 482 N.W.2d 250
    SUMMARY: The physical presence of a parent at the hearing to terminate parental rights is unnecessary so long as the parent has been provided procedural due process. Parental incarceration may be considered in reference to abandonment as a basis for termination of parental rights under [...]