State of Iowa v. Maurice Sylvester Green Sr.

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• finding that DHS acted improperly in refusing to notify relatives that the child in interest was removed from the mother’s care
• placing the burden on “the department to formally notify” relatives, “even if the relatives were informally aware of the child’s transfer to foster care”
• “In the absence of statutory criteria, this court has examined the reasonableness of the current guardian’s actions and the best interests of the child.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).