In the Interest of D.I.G.

Greene, J.:

Following the district court’s termination of his parental rights, the natural father of D.I.G. and P.M.G. appeals, arguing exclusively that the district court erred in failing to hold an evidentiary hearing on the issue of temporary custody. We dismiss the appeal, concluding that any challenge to the termination of parental rights has been abandoned and that any challenge to the order of temporary custody is untimely.

These proceedings were instituted upon the State’s filing of a Child in Need of Care (CINC) petition in March 2003, alleging that both D.I.G. and P.M.G. were children…