No. 5-183 / 04-1940.Court of Appeals of Iowa.
March 16, 2005.
Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Sac County, Mary L. Timko, Judge.
A grandmother appeals the district court’s denial of her motion to intervene in the child’s juvenile court proceedings.REVERSED.
Peter Goldsmith of Boerner and Goldsmith Law Firm, P.C., Ida Grove, for the appellant-grandmother.
Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Kathrine Miller-Todd, Assistant Attorney General, Earl Hardisty, County Attorney and Rick Kimble, Assistant County Attorney, for appellee.
Lori Kolpin, Aurelia, for the mother.
Mary Hamilton of Hamilton Law Office, Storm Lake, for the child.
Considered by Huitink, P.J., and Miller and Eisenhauer, JJ.
EISENHAUER, J.
A grandmother appeals from the juvenile court’s denial of her motion to intervene in A.S.P.-C.’s juvenile court proceedings following the termination of the mother’s parental rights. We review a denial of intervention for the correction of errors at law. In re A.G., 558 N.W.2d 400, 403 (Iowa 1997).
Our supreme court has held:
Because section 600A.9(1), and particularly section 232.117(3)(c), grant grandparents a legal right to be considered as guardians and custodians of children following termination of parental rights, we hold that grandparents are sufficiently “interested in the subject matter” of these termination proceedings so as to have a right to intervene. . . .
In re J.R. S.R., 315 N.W.2d 750, 752 (Iowa 1982). Accordingly, we reverse the juvenile court’s order denying the grandmother’s motion to intervene.
REVERSED.