Boatman v. State

A writ of certiorari was issued out of this court to review a ruling of the Chelan County Juvenile Court that it has no jurisdiction to consider a petition to change or modify an order permanently depriving a father of parental rights relating to his minor daughter.

In October, 1964, a petition was filed in the Chelan County Superior Court alleging that the 9-month-old daughter of petitioner Carl Frank Boatman and his wife, Diana, was a minor having no parent or guardian willing to exercise, or capable of exercising, proper parental control. A temporary order was entered, adjudging the child…