Legal Opinion
DS v. Department of Public Assistance & Social Services
Wyoming Supreme Court
Decided March 6, 1980No. CF 2PublishedCited by 88 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROSE, Justice.
Where is there a more sensitive place in the law than that area where courts must undertake to decide whether or not a child will be taken from its mother? We know of none. That is the issue in this appeal. This is a contest , for custody of a child, X, between the child’s natural mother, DS, and her husband, RS, on the one hand, and the State Department of Public Assistance and Social Services (sometimes referred to as D-PASS), on the other hand. In reversing the trial court’s termination of parental rights, we will:(1) Hold that tardy service of the notice of appeal is, in…
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