In Re the Welfare of J.J.B.

COYNE, Justice.

On August 9, 1984, the Family Division of the Kandiyohi County Court terminated the parental rights of L.B., the natural mother of J.J.B., a minor child. Based on its determination that the child’s mother had never been given either a copy of a written case plan or a verbal explanation of its contents, the court of appeals reversed. On February 14, 1986 this court, 381 N.W.2d 442, ordered reversal of the decision of the court of appeals and reinstatement of the county court’s order. Our order provided that this opinion would follow.

J.J.B. was born in January of 1979. On three…