D.M. v. State Ex Rel. Fremont County Dpass

GOLDEN, Justice.

After an adjudicatory hearing1 held on January 19 and 30,1989, the District Court of the Ninth Judicial District, sitting as a juvenile court, issued its order finding that the state had proven by a preponderance of the evidence that the mother, D.M., had neglected her children, N.M. and A.C.2 The juvenile court based the finding of neglect on

the period of August 14, 1988, through October 6, 1988, [when the mother] left the Minor Children in the care of [another] family. During the above mentioned period of time [the mother] visited the children at irregular times and without…