Richberg v. Dawson

Lewis, Chief Justice:

Appeal is from an order of the Family Court refusing the petition of appellant, Children’s Bureau of South Carolina, for an order terminating the respondent’s parental rights to her two minor daughters, aged ten and twelve, because of her alleged abandonment of the children. The trial court held that abandonment had not been established and directed that respondent have custody of the children upon compliance with certain conditions. Enforcement of that order has been superseded pending this appeal.

It is now established that, before parental rights may be completely and…