Ray v. State Department of Pensions & Security

EDWARD N. SCRUGGS, Retired Circuit Judge.

After an ore tenus evidentiary hearing, the trial court terminated the parental rights of the parents as to their three children, who were five, three, and two years of age. The father died after the final judgment was entered, and the mother duly appealed. She contends that the evidence was insufficient to authorize the termination of her parental rights, and that the trial court erred in not exhausting all reasonable means of family placement in that the children should have been placed with Mrs. Deason, their maternal grandmother (grandmother). We…