JW v. State Ex Rel. Laramie County Department of Public Assistance & Social Services

THOMAS, Justice.

The issue to be resolved in this case is whether a misinterpretation or misapplication of a statute relating to the entry of a decree of disposition placing a child in accordance with the statutes relating to juvenile courts deprived the court of jurisdiction and caused its decree to be void. The question is presented in the context of the claim of the appellant, the child’s grandmother, that the district court sitting as the juvenile court erred in denying her motion to vacate the decree pursuant to Rule 60(b), W.R.C.P. 1 After entering the decree, which placed the child with…