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· 1/21/1998

In Interest of RKB

Citations

  • 572 N.W.2d 600
  • 1998 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 8
  • 1998 WL 17982

How courts have described this case

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  • noting that even where the paternal grandmother initiated visitations for the father, his indifference was the focus of the best-interest analysis
  • holding it was in the best interest of the child that the father’s rights be terminated, particularly given the father’s violent disposition and extensive criminal history
  • terminating father’s parental rights because, inter alia, the mother’s husband supports the child and wishes to adopt him
  • borrowing backward-looking and forward- looking components from chapter 232 to fill in chapter 600A’s analytical framework
  • borrowing backward-looking and forward- looking components from chapter 232 to fill in chapter 600A’s analytical framework
  • borrowing backward-looking and forward-looking components from chapter 232 to fill in chapter 600A’s analytical framework

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Judges: Harris, Larson, Carter, Neuman, Snell

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