Hennepin County Welfare Department v. Fish

Appeal from an order of the Hennepin County District Court terminating Mrs. Joan Fish’s parental rights to four of her children.

Appellant has four illegitimate children: Kimberly, age 9; Dawn, age 8; Mary Ann, age 7; and Chad, age 4. The Hennepin County Welfare Department filed petitions alleging that Mrs. Fish was neglecting these children shortly after each child was born. Orders determining the children to be neglected or dependent were entered as the result of these petitions, and their legal custody was transferred to the director of the welfare department.

In February 1966 the district…