The Buffalo County Court concluded that the Phelps County Court lacked jurisdiction to even transfer the case to Buffalo County and dismissed for lack of jurisdiction. Concluding that it lacked "jurisdiction" because the minor child was born in Buffalo County, the court transferred the complaint to Buffalo County Court.
INTRODUCTIONĪustin Peterson (Austin) filed a "Complaint to Establish Paternity and Objection to Proposed Adoption" in the Phelps County Court. HEAVICAN, C.J., MILLER-LERMAN, CASSEL, STACY, FUNKE, PAPIK, and FREUDENBERG, JJ. Messersmith, Senior Certified Law Student, of Anderson, Klein, Brewster & Brandt, for appellee. Stamm and Sarah Hammond, of Stamm Romero & Associates, P.C., L.L.O., for appellant. Appeal from the County Court for Buffalo County: JOHN P. An appellate court gives effect to all parts of a statute and avoids rejecting as superfluous or meaningless any word, clause, or sentence. The rules of statutory interpretation require an appellate court to give effect to the entire language of a statute, and to reconcile different provisions of the statutes so they are consistent, harmonious, and sensible. In construing a statute, a court must determine and give effect to the purpose and intent of the Legislature as ascertained from the entire language of the statute considered in its plain, ordinary, and popular sense. To the extent an appeal calls for statutory interpretation or presents questions of law, an appellate court must reach an independent conclusion irrespective of the determination made by the court below. An appellate court reviews juvenile cases de novo on the record and reaches its conclusions independently of the juvenile court's findings.
A jurisdictional issue that does not involve a factual dispute presents a question of law.
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