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In re M.B.

COURT OF APPEALS OF IOWA
Apr 29, 2020
947 N.W.2d 786 (Iowa Ct. App. 2020)

Summary

concluding "the State failed to prove the mother's ‘mental capacity or condition’ resulted in deprivation of care" where the child protective worker acknowledged the mother had not undergone a mental-health evaluation and she declined to characterize the abuse as a mental-health diagnosis

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Opinion

No. 20-0404

04-29-2020

In the INTEREST OF M.B., Minor Child, C.B., Mother, Appellant.

Katie Eastvold, North Liberty, for appellant mother. Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, and Mary A. Triick, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee State. Kristin L. Denniger, Cedar Rapids, attorney and guardian ad litem for minor child.


DECISION WITHOUT PUBLISHED OPINION See Iowa R. App. P. 6.904

AFFIRMED IN PART AND REVERSED IN PART.


Summaries of

In re M.B.

COURT OF APPEALS OF IOWA
Apr 29, 2020
947 N.W.2d 786 (Iowa Ct. App. 2020)

concluding "the State failed to prove the mother's ‘mental capacity or condition’ resulted in deprivation of care" where the child protective worker acknowledged the mother had not undergone a mental-health evaluation and she declined to characterize the abuse as a mental-health diagnosis

Summary of this case from In re M.O.
Case details for

In re M.B.

Case Details

Full title:IN THE INTEREST OF M.B., Minor Child, C.B., Mother, Appellant.

Court:COURT OF APPEALS OF IOWA

Date published: Apr 29, 2020

Citations

947 N.W.2d 786 (Iowa Ct. App. 2020)

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