Interest of A.D.

2017 ND 44

• Court: North Dakota Supreme Court
• Decided: March 7, 2017
• Docket: 20170014
• Status: Published

Opinion

Filed 3/7/17 by Clerk of Supreme Court

IN THE SUPREME COURT

STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA

2017 ND 44

Interest of A.D., a child

Jeanette Wetch, L.S.W., Petitioner and Appellee

v.

A.D., a child, N.D., father, Respondents

         and

M.D., mother,                                                                         Respondent and Appellant

No. 20170014

Appeal from the District Court of Cass County, East Central Judicial District, the Honorable John Charles Irby, Judge.

AFFIRMED.

Per Curiam.

Constance L. Cleveland, Assistant State’s Attorney, P.O. Box 3106, Fargo, N.D. 58108-3106, for petitioner and appellee; submitted on brief.

Gene W. Doeling, Jr., and Patrick J. Sinner, P.O. Box 9231, Fargo, N.D. 58106-9231, for respondents and appellant; submitted on brief.

Interest of A.D.

[¶1] The mother, M.D., appeals from a juvenile court order terminating her parental rights.  The juvenile court found the child is deprived, the conditions and causes of the deprivation are likely to continue, the child is suffering or will probably suffer serious harm, and the child has been in foster care for at least 450 out of the last 660 nights of the child’s life.  The mother argues there was not clear and convincing evidence the deprivation was likely to continue.  We conclude the court’s findings are not clearly erroneous.  We summarily affirm under N.D.R.App.P. 35.1(a)(2).

[¶2] Gerald W. VandeWalle, C.J.

Lisa Fair McEvers

Daniel J. Crothers

Jerod E. Tufte

Carol Ronning Kapsner