State ex rel. M.W.

HOWE, Chief Justice:

INTRODUCTION

¶ 1 We granted cross petitions for writs of certiorari to the Utah Court of Appeals,. Petitioner and cross-respondent, the State of Utah, seeks review of the court of appeals' decision that the natural parent of two girls was entitled to the parental presumption in a custody dispute between the parent and a non-parent even though the juvenile court had previously determined that the children had been neglected by that parent. See State ex rel. M.W. & S.W., 970 P.2d 284 (Utah Ct.App.1998). L.A.W., the natural father of the children, cross-petitioned.

BACKGROUND

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