McMerty v. A.M.

VANDE WALLE, Chief Justice.

A.M. appealed from a juvenile court order confirming the judicial referee’s findings and recommendations on a motion for payment of costs and expenses for care of a child. We conclude that the juvenile court did not err by utilizing the child support guidelines to determine A.M.’s financial ability under section 27-20-49, NDCC, to pay costs and expenses for her child in foster care, and we affirm.

On March 28,1995, a judicial referee found K.G., born January 10,1983, to be a deprived child in need of protection, and an unruly child in need of treatment and…