Helt v. Guess

Summary

The court held that the appeal was not moot because effective relief remained available concerning the child-related provisions of the protection order. It affirmed the protections afforded to Helt but reversed the provisions naming the children as protected persons, granting Helt exclusive care, and eliminating Guess's parenting contact because the District Court made no child-specific statutory findings and did not explain why supervised visitation or other narrower safeguards were inadequate. The court remanded for proceedings consistent with those limits while reserving parenting-time determinations for the separate parenting-plan proceeding.