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  • In re Interest of Javontae T.

    Filed on March 22, 2011
    Not designated for permanent publication, A-10-906
    SUMMARY: A parent cannot delay a proceeding by challenging paternity when a default order of paternity had been entered years earlier and has remained uncontested by that parent.  
    Javontae, DOB 6/93, is the child of James, who has been incarcerated a majority of Javontae’s life. [...]

  • In re Interest of Chance J.

    Filed on December 31, 2009
    279 Neb. 81, 776 N.W.2d 519
    SUMMARY: A difference in physical appearance between the parent and child or a suspicion based on infidelity are not just causes for abandonment of a child born in wedlock.  
    Chance, DOB 4/17/06, was removed from the mother’s care in June 2007. On February 6, 2002, [...]

  • In re Interest of Chance J.

    Filed on June 2, 2009
    768 N.W.2d 472, 17 Neb. App. 645
    SUMMARY: The father did not abandon the child for purposes of 43-292 as he reasonably believed at birth that he was not the biological father of the child, had no contact with the mother or DHHS until the termination petition was filed, and made efforts [...]

  • In re Interest of Dannon C. et al.

    Filed on March 24, 2009
    Not designated for permanent publication
    A-08-1153
    SUMMARY: The father’s testimony as to his paternity of the child was sufficient to establish paternity. Reasonable efforts were not required to be proven in the termination of parental rights as the bases for termination were 43-292(1) and (7).  
    Laquisha, DOB 3/17/97, is the child of [...]

  • In re Interest of Brittany S.

    Filed October 21, 2003
    12 Neb.App. 208, 670 N.W.2d 465
    SUMMARY: Father’s judicial admissions through pleadings and affidavits to being natural father and juvenile court’s implicit adjudication of paternity are sufficient to preclude challenge to paternity. The child’s former guardian ad litem having joined the county attorney’s office does not disqualify the entire county attorney’s office from [...]

  • In re Interest of DeWayne G. & Devon G.

    Filed on January 25, 2002
    263 Neb. 43, 638 N.W.2d 510
    SUMMARY: A separate hearing is not required when a parent challenges the provision of reasonable efforts under Neb. Rev. Stat. section 43-283.01. Although incarceration cannot alone be a basis for termination, the court may consider the facts that led to the incarceration and the parent’s [...]

  • In re Interest of Gloria F.

    Filed on April 23, 1998
    254 Neb. 531, 577 N.W.2d 296
    SUMMARY: Preadjudication and postadjudication detention hearings are dispositional in nature and strict rules of evidence are not applied to dispositional hearings, thus allowing caseworker hearsay testimony to be admitted. <br />&nbsp;
    Gloria, 12 years of age, entered foster care in March 1993. Parental rights of the natural mother [...]