In the Interest of K.P., Minor Child, S.P., Mother
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Opinion
IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF IOWA
No. 17-0042 Filed March 8, 2017
IN THE INTEREST OF K.P., Minor child,
S.P., Mother, Appellant. ________________________________________________________________
Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Scott County, Christine Dalton
Ploof, District Associate Judge.
A mother appeals the termination of her parental rights to her child.
AFFIRMED.
Rebecca G. Ruggero, Davenport, for appellant mother.
Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, and Gretchen W. Kraemer, Assistant
Attorney General, for appellee State.
Jean Capdevila, Davenport, guardian ad litem for minor child.
Considered by Danilson, C.J., and Vogel and Vaitheswaran, JJ. 2
VAITHESWARAN, Judge.
A mother appeals the termination of her parental rights to her child, born in
2016. She contends the district court (A) should have funded a mental health
evaluation and (B) should not have found aggravated circumstances warranting a
waiver of the department of human services’ obligation to make reasonable
efforts toward reunification.
Both issues were decided following a dispositional hearing that preceded
the termination hearing and were confirmed following a permanency hearing.
The mother failed to have the record of the dispositional and permanency
hearings transcribed. In the absence of those records, we have nothing to
review. See Iowa R. Civ. P. 6.803(1) (“If the appellant intends to urge on appeal
that a finding or conclusion is unsupported by the evidence or is contrary to the
evidence, the appellant shall include in the record a transcript of all evidence
relevant to such finding or conclusion.”); In re I.M., No. 13-0821, 2014 WL
4225169, at *2 (Iowa Ct. App. Aug. 27, 2014) (“[A]s we have not been provided
the transcripts of the entire disposition hearing, we are unable to review the
proceedings for the alleged errors.”). Accordingly, we affirm the order
terminating the mother’s parental rights to her child.
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