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  • In re Interest of Wendi L.

    Filed on July 27, 2010
    Nebraska Court of Appeals
    Not designated for permanent publication
    SUMMARY: Holding the adjudication hearing 8 months after the petition was filed where the child is 17 years of age and the abuser already sentenced for sexual assault is hardly ideal but not grounds for reversal. Evidence establishing that the interpreter at the therapy [...]

  • In re Interest of Carrdale H. II

    Filed on April 27, 2010
    _____ N.W.2d _____, 18 Neb. App. 350
    SUMMARY: Evidence proving mere possession of crack cocaine by the father without any showing that it affected the child does not establish a definite risk of future harm, and adjudication of the child on this basis was therefore improper.  
    Carrdale II, DOB 10/08, was removed [...]

  • In re Interest of Rayna G.

    Filed on March 30, 2010
    Not designated for permanent publication, A-09-801
    SUMMARY: Given the father’s positive actions in turning his life around since he learned that the child had been removed from the mother, it was not error for the court to deny the petition to terminate his parental rights.  
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  • In re Interest of Kenna S.

    Filed on April 28, 2009
    766 N.W.2d 424, 17 Neb. App. 544
    SUMMARY: The time a parent spends incarcerated shall not be excluded from the determination of whether a child has been out-of-home 15 of the most recent 22 months. As the father did not take steps to undergo sex offender treatment in the two months [...]

  • 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 Eden K. & Allison L.

    Filed on July 3, 2006
    14 Neb. App. 867
    SUMMARY: The sole testimony of two caseworkers with limited firsthand knowledge of the mother’s progress did not sufficiently establish that termination was in the children’s best interests, such as evidence that adoption was a possibility or of the needs or interests of the children. 
    On April 22, 2004, a [...]

  • 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 [...]