Summary
reversing termination of a father's parental rights where he was taken into custody before the first day of the termination hearing on a mental-health commitment order and was unable to be present for the State's evidence and finding, under M.D. , either the court should have continued the hearing or provided a transcript to the father
Summary of this case from In re A.H.Opinion
No. 19-2109
04-01-2020
In the INTEREST OF W.E. and D.J., Minor Children, R.J., Mother, Appellant, J.E., Father, Appellant.
Kelsey Bauerly Langel of Bauerly & Langel P.L.C., Le Mars, for appellant mother. Jared Weber, Orange City, for appellant father. Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, and Ellen Ramsey-Kacena, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee State. Debra S. De Jong of De Jong Law Firm, P.C., Orange City, attorney and guardian ad litem for minor children.
DECISION WITHOUT PUBLISHED OPINION See Iowa R. App. P. 6.904
The mother and father separately appeal the termination of their parental rights to their two children. AFFIRMED ON MOTHER'S APPEAL; REVERSED AND REMANDED ON FATHER'S APPEAL.