In re A.X.M.

BRYANT, Judge.

Respondent-parents appeal from an order terminating their parental rights to their minor child Alva1 . Where respondents received ineffective assistance of counsel due to trial counsel's failure to move to dismiss DSS's petition for termination of parental rights, we reverse the trial court's order terminating respondents' parental rights.

Alva was born in Florida in September 2014. Respondents were both 17 years old when Alva was born. When respondent-mother could not find work in Florida, she moved to North Carolina with Alva, Alva's maternal grandmother, and…