Nebraska Adoption Court Cases

Nebraska Court Case: Russell v. Bridgens
Bridgens and Russell are unmarried and of the same sex. They lived together and raised the child until August 1999. At that time, Russell and the minor child, who both had been residing with Bridgens in Germany, returned to the United States while Bridgens remained in Germany. On November 21, 2000, Russell filed a petition to establish custody and support for the minor child in the district court for Douglas County, Nebraska. After answering and cross-petitioning for custody...


Nebraska Court Case: Interest of Joshua M.
These two juvenile cases in which Mitzi M.'s parental rights were terminated as to her four children were consolidated for trial and appeal. Case No. S-97-1085 involves the child, Joshua M., and case No. S-97-1086 involves three children, Jonathan M., Jasmine M., and Devon M. In a combined opinion, in case No. S-97-1085, the Nebraska Court of Appeals affirmed the juvenile court's decision terminating Mitzi's parental rights to Joshua, and Mitzi did not seek further review...


Nebraska Court Case: In re Tabatha R.
Ronda R., natural mother of Tabatha R., appeals and Ronald D., natural father of the infant, cross-appeals, from a portion of a dispositional order filed by the juvenile court for Douglas County on December 22, 1997. The dispositional order directed that the infant remain in the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) for appropriate care and placement and adopted DHHS' recommendation that no rehabilitation plan be ordered for either...


Nebraska Court Case: Schmidt v. State
The child was born on September 16, 1986. Two months later, she was treated for first- and second-degree burns on her inner thighs at St. Joseph Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska. She was released into foster care after being treated, and the Douglas County Separate Juvenile Court made the child a ward of DSS. On September 1, 1987, both of the child's birth parents relinquished their parental rights. On the same day, the juvenile court placed the child in the custody...


Nebraska Court Case: In re Constance G.
Following the appellee mother's admission of the allegations in the appellee State's petition and the appellant father's no contest plea, the county court, sitting as a juvenile court, adjudicated Constance G., the subject girl infant, to be "homeless or destitute, or without proper support through no fault of his or her parent...


Nebraska Court Case: Estate of Hannan
This case was submitted to the Phelps County Court for disposition on the file, the briefs, and stipulated facts. The facts of this case, as stipulated to by the parties, and as contained in the record, are as follows: On January 7, 1977, James Hannan, one of five children of the decedent, Janet McClymont Hannan, adopted...


Nebraska Court Case: In re Alex T.
The Nebraska Department of Social Services (Department) petitions this court for further review of the Nebraska Court of Appeals decision which dismissed these consolidated appeals for lack of jurisdiction. Krystal P., Kile P., and Alex T. were adjudicated as children lacking proper parental care under Neb. Rev. Stat. § 43-247(3)(a) (Reissue 1993). In its order of January 9, 1995, the juvenile court disapproved the Department's case plan for the three children...


Nebraska Court Case: In re Krystal P.
The facts of these appeals are set forth in In re Interest of Alex T. et al., ante p. , N.W.2d (1995). We repeat only such facts as are necessary for our disposition of this matter. On January 9, 1995, the juvenile court disapproved the Department's case plan, which called for reunification of the children with their mother. According to the court, the Department's plan failed to consider that the parents had possibly relinquished their parental rights and that, therefore, the plan was...


Nebraska Court Case: Adoption of Ebbers
This is an appeal from the order of the district court for Gage County affirming the county court's ruling that the relinquishments and consents to adoption executed by Kimberly T. and John P. were valid and that no written consent by the Nebraska Department of Social Services (Department), the legal guardian of the children, was necessary prior to the filing of petitions for adoption...


Nebraska Court Case: Friehe v. Schaad
Protection and Due Process Clauses of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and Neb. Const. art. I, § 3. The district court upheld the constitutionality of the statutes as applied in this case and entered an order allowing Friehe to execute a valid relinquishment and consent and to proceed to adoption, without the necessity of Schaad's consent or relinquishment. Schaad appealed to the Nebraska Court of Appeals, and this case was transferred to our docket...


Nebraska Court Case: In re Jorius G.
Following an adjudication hearing at which a juvenile is adjudged to be under subdivision (3) of section 43-247, the court may order the department to prepare and file with the court a proposed plan for the care, placement, and services which are to be provided to such juvenile and his or her family. . . . If any other party, including, but not limited to, the guardian ad litem, parents, county attorney, or custodian, proves by a preponderance of the evidence that the department's plan...


Nebraska Court Case: In re Joshua M.
Juvenile cases are reviewed de novo on the record, and the appellate court is required to reach a conclusion independent of the trial court's findings; however, where the evidence is in conflict, the appellate court will consider and may give weight to the fact that the trial court observed the witnesses and accepted one version of the facts over another. In re Interest of...

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