J.I., Father, Appellant. v. << (2019)

Court of Appeals of Iowa.

In the INTEREST OF L.I., G.I., and A.I., Minor Children, J.I., Father, Appellant.

No. 18-1842

Decided: January 23, 2019

Considered by Vogel, C.J., and Vaitheswaran and McDonald, JJ.

Mark D. Reed of Marberry Law Firm, P.C., Urbandale, for appellant father. Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, and Mary A. Triick, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee State. Jean M. Baker of Jean M. Baker Law Office, West Des Moines, guardian ad litem for minor children.

On October 9, 2018, the district court issued the permanency order at issue for L.I., G.I., and A.I. At the time, the children were placed with the father with a permanency goal of reunification with the mother. The permanency order continued this arrangement, and a separate order entered the same day set a permanency review hearing for January 10, 2019.

The father now appeals, claiming that granting the mother additional time to work toward reunification was in error and that the case should have been dismissed because he is the children's legal custodian. On our de novo review,¹ we find the district court did not err in granting a three-month extension. We therefore affirm the permanency order without further opinion. See Iowa Ct. R. 21.26(1)(a), (d), (e).

AFFIRMED.

FOOTNOTES

1. We review a permanency order de novo. In re D.S., 563 N.W.2d 12, 14 (Iowa Ct. App. 1997).

VOGEL, Chief Judge.

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