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 Cite as 2018 Ark. 307

CV-17-500 ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES, ERICA ENEKS, AND TONY HUFFMANAPPELLANT

V.

TEGAN DOWDY AND MINOR CHILDRENAPPELLEE October 25, 2018

APPEAL FROM THE CRAWFORD COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT [NO. 17JV-2015-287]

HONORABLE MICHAEL MEDLOCK, JUDGE

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The Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS) appeals from the Crawford County Circuit Court's April 5, 2017 orders holding Tony Huffman, a DHS attorney, and Erika Eneks, a caseworker for the Crawford County DHS Office, in contempt.

I. Background
Most of the relevant facts are not in dispute. This appeal arises out of a dependency-neglect case initiated in 2015 when DHS took custody of Tegan Dowdy's children. According to representations by the children's attorney ad litem, she filed a motion to have the children placed in their grandparents' home in the fall of 2016. The issue of the children's placement was taken up by the circuit court on November 3, 2016, at a 