Arkansas Department of Human Services v. Farris

Jack Holt, Jr., Chief Justice.

The Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS) appeals from the White County Chancery Court’s (Juvenile Division) finding that it did not have personal jurisdiction over the appellee, Henry Calvin Miller, for purposes of terminating Mr. Miller’s parental rights. We disagree with the chancellor and reverse.

In 1984, Mary Miller, the mother of the children involved in this lawsuit, was killed by her husband, Henry Calvin Miller, in Mississippi. The children, Theresa Farris, Lora Farris, David Miller, and Amanda Miller, were subsequently brought to Arkansas to…