IN THE INTEREST OF A.M.B., Minor Child, C.A.Y., Mother, Appellant, A.L.W., Father, Appellant.
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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF IOWA
No. 8-900 / 08-1173
Filed December 17, 2008
IN THE INTEREST OF A.M.B., Minor Child,
C.A.Y., Mother,
Appellant,
A.L.W., Father,
Appellant.
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Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Des Moines County, Mark Kruse,
District Associate Judge.
A father appeals a juvenile court order terminating his parental rights to a
child. AFFIRMED.
Todd E. Chelf of Cray, Goddard, Miller, Taylor & Chelf, L.L.P., Burlington,
for mother.
Andrew S. Hoth of Hoth Law Offices, Burlington, for father.
Reyna L. Wilkens of Roberts Law Office, Burlington, for minor child.
Considered by Huitink, P.J., and Vogel and Mahan, JJ.
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PER CURIAM
The mother of a girl who was just short of her fourteenth birthday at the
time of a termination of parental rights hearing sought termination of the father’s
parental rights to their daughter. Following a hearing the juvenile court filed
detailed findings of fact and conclusions of law and ordered termination. In doing
so it found that the mother had proved by clear and convincing evidence the
grounds for termination pursuant to Iowa Code sections 600A.8(3)(b) (2007)
(abandonment) and 600A.8(4) (failure, without good cause, to pay ordered
support) and that termination is in the child’s best interest. The father appeals,
claiming the juvenile court erred in finding clear and convincing evidence for
termination pursuant to sections 600A.8(3) and 600A.8(4) and in finding
termination to be in the child’s best interest.
Our review is de novo. In re T.Q., 519 N.W.2d 105, 106 (Iowa Ct. App.
1994). We find clear and convincing evidence proved both of the two statutory
grounds for termination relied on by the juvenile court. In addition, we find the
record clearly and convincingly demonstrates that termination is in the child’s
best interest so she can be adopted by her stepfather, the only person who has
served as her father and the person whom she has known as her father since
she was two years of age.
We affirm the judgment of the juvenile court.
21.29(1)(b), (d), (e); 21.29(2).
AFFIRMED.
See Iowa Ct. Rs.
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