M.M. v. Colbert County Department of Human Resources

MOORE, Judge.

M.M., who is the maternal grandmother of S.P., J.P., H.H., and E.H. (hereinafter referred to collectively as “the children”), appeals from a judgment entered by the Colbert Juvenile Court (“the juvenile court”) on July 9, 2012, denying her petitions for custody of the children, who had been declared dependent. We affirm.

Facts and Procedural Background

In October and November 2010, the Colbert County Department of Human Resources (“DHR”) picked up the children after discovering that they were living in uninhabitable and inhumane conditions in the home of the children’s mother, J.H.…