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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF IOWA No. 8-889 / 08-0703 Filed December 17, 2008 STATE OF IOWA, Plaintiff-Appellant, vs. IOWA DISTRICT COURT FOR JOHNSON COUNTY, Defendant-Appellee. ________________________________________________________________ Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Johnson County, Stephen C. Gerard, II, District Associate Judge.

The State of Iowa by certiorari action claims the juvenile court acted illegally in ordering the Iowa Department of Human Services to incur certain expenses. WRIT SUSTAINED.

Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Bruce Kempkes, Assistant Attorney General, Janet Lyness, County Attorney, and Kristin Parks, Assistant County Attorney, for appellant. Natalie Cronk, Iowa City, for appellee-mother. W. Eric Nelson, Coralville, for appellee-father. Thomas Maxwell, Iowa City, for intervenor-foster parents.

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Ellen grandmother.

Ramsey-Kacena,

Cedar

Rapids,

for

intervenor-paternal

Christine Frederick, Davenport, for appellee-minor child.

Considered by Vogel, P.J., and Mahan and Miller, JJ.

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PER CURIAM Following a hearing the juvenile court terminated the parental rights of seven-year-old D.W.'s father. It dismissed the State's petition for termination of the parental rights of D.W.'s mother. The cou rt ordered that D.W. be placed in the legal custody of D.W.'s paternal grandmother, who resides in Missouri, in whose physical custody the court had previously placed him and with whom he appears to be bonded. The court ordered that the Iowa Department of Human Services (DHS) submit an amended case permanency plan for another planned permanent living arrangement

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