Summary
affirming removal of DHS as guardian because DHS "deviated from the process established under the Iowa Administrative Code and DHS's own policy manual" in making its selection of the adoptive family
Summary of this case from In re J.L.Opinion
No. 20-0081
06-03-2020
In the INTEREST OF J.H., Minor Child, State of Iowa, Appellant, A.H., Grand father, Intervenor-Appellant.
Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, and Mary A. Triick, Assistant Attorney General, for appellant State. Linda A. Hall of Linda Hall Law Firm, PLLC, Cedar Falls, for intervenor-appellant. Andrew C. Abbott of Abbott Law Office, P.C., Waterloo, for appellee foster parents. Melissa A. Anderson-Seeber of Juvenile Public Defender's Office, Waterloo, attorney and guardian ad litem for minor child.
DECISION WITHOUT PUBLISHED OPINION See Iowa R. App. P. 6.904
The State and the paternal grandfather separately appeal the juvenile court order removing the Iowa Department of Human Services as the child's guardian. AFFIRMED.