INTEREST OF V.G.

No. 23-0410.

995 N.W.2d 530 (2023)

In the INTEREST OF V.G., Minor Child, State of Iowa, Appellant, Cole J. Mayer, Guardian ad Litem-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Iowa.

Filed July 26, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brenna Bird , Attorney General, and Mary A. Triick (until withdrawal) and Mackenzie Moran , Assistant Attorneys General, for appellant State.

Cole J. Mayer of Des Moines Juvenile Public Defender, Des Moines, attorney and guardian ad litem for minor child.

G.G., Des Moines, self-represented appellee mother.

Scott L. Bandstra , Des Moines, for appellee father.

Considered by Ahlers, P.J., and Badding and Buller, JJ.


Two-year-old V.G. has cystic fibrosis—a progressive genetic disease that will eventually lead to her death. Although there is no cure for the disease, specialists in cystic fibrosis have prescribed therapies for the child that will slow its progression. But V.G.'s parents resisted some of those therapies, which led to the...

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