Court Opinion

ID: 9730117
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 15:01:39.735852+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:26:04.316373
License: Public Domain

Krivosha, C.J.,
dissenting.
For reasons more particularly set out in my recent dissent in In re Interest of D.R. and S.B., 217 Neb. 883, 351 N.W.2d 424 (1984), I find that I must likewise dissent in this case. I again believe that the record simply does not establish “by clear and convincing evidence” that the parental rights of the parties here should be terminated. It is ironic, because the record would seem to imply that if the parents had not voluntarily placed the child with the Buffalo County Department of Social Services for temporary foster care in December of 1980, the State might not have taken any action with regard to this case. Obviously, the child is not comfortable with the natural parents, having been away for so long. That is a matter, however, which I believe time would correct. I believe that we should mot have terminated the parental rights in this case.