Schalk v. Alabama Department of Pensions & Security

EDWARD N. SCRUGGS, Retired Circuit Judge.

The parental rights of the parents of a four-year-old daughter were terminated. The mother appealed and raises three issues.

I

She contends that she did not receive sufficient notice of the seriousness of the petition whereby the Alabama Department of Pensions and Security (D.P.S.) sought to terminate her parental rights. Since that issue is raised for the first time upon appeal, we cannot consider it. Matter of Rhodes, 444 So.2d 879 (Ala.Civ.App.1984).

We observe, however, that in October 1984 one of the social workers for D.P.S. informed the mother that…