Filed on February 24, 2009
Not designated for permanent publication
A-08-915 through A-08-918
SUMMARY: Termination was in the children’s best interests because the mother did not make significant progress toward rehabilitation and reunification and the children need safety and permanency that the mother cannot provide.  
The children, Jesse (DOB 9/23/96), Gabriel (DOB 9/29/98), Seth (DOB 3/29/00) and [...]

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 [...]

Filed on August 29, 2006
Not designated for permanent publication
Nebraska Court of Appeals, A-06-194
SUMMARY: Even though the mother was “not at fault for her present situation and that she very much desire[d] [her daughter’s] return” the court recognized that “when a parent is unable or unwilling to rehabilitate himself or herself within a reasonable time, the [...]

Filed on January 28, 2005
269 Neb. 249, 691 N.W.2d 164
SUMMARY: Because the testimony of the sole witness for the State was primarily based on hearsay and the testimony from the mother’s therapist that the mother was improving her parenting skills and that the child would be harmed by termination was not contradicted, the State did [...]

Filed on August 13, 1999
257 Neb. 450, 598 N.W.2d 729
SUMMARY: It is not unconstitutional for the guardian ad litem to perform both the investigatory duties of a guardian ad litem and bring and try a motion to terminate parental rights as authorized in Neb. Rev. Stat. section 43-272.01(2). As a ground for termination under [...]