Through the Eyes of the Child Initiative

Filed on March 30, 2010
Not designated for permanent publication, A-09-1013
SUMMARY: A denial of child in-chambers testimony is not a final, appealable order.  
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Filed on March 12, 2010
279 Neb. 568, 778 N.W.2d 744
SUMMARY: The Nebraska Supreme Court affirms the decision of the Nebraska Court of Appeals dismissing the appeal on the basis that a denial to allow in-chambers testimony from the child is not a final, appealable order.  
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Filed on November 24, 2009
18 Neb. App. 153, 775 N.W.2d 470
SUMMARY: A denial to allow in-chambers testimony from the child is not a final, appealable order.  
Marcella B. and Juan S. were removed from the mother on January 26, 2009, on allegations of inappropriate physical contact and failure to provide appropriate care, support and/or supervision. [...]

Filed on October 13, 2009
774 N.W.2d 766, 18 Neb. App. 63
SUMMARY: Permanent modification of custody in an abuse/neglect case cannot be made in a dispositional order and instead must occur pursuant to Neb. Rev. Stat. section 42-364 through a complaint to modify, a modification hearing and findings that there has been a material change in [...]

Filed on June 13, 2006
Not designated for permanent publication
Nebraska Court of Appeals, A-05-1409
SUMMARY: A pending motion to transfer in the juvenile court cannot be appealed since there is no final order by which the parents can appeal. 
Faren H. was born on June 2, 2005.  On June 7, 2005, the state filed a petition to adjudicate [...]

Filed on June 14, 1991
238 Neb. 405, 470 N.W.2d 780
SUMMARY: Fourteen days between removal and the protective custody hearing is on the brink of unreasonableness but does not violate due process. The protective custody hearing order is a final, appealable order but the ex parte order is not. 
On August 10, 1990, R.G., an infant, [...]