Sauls v. Atchison

DOYLE, Presiding Judge.

William Christopher Sauls appeals from a judgment of the Baldwin County Superior Court terminating his parental rights to his daughter, S. M. S., and granting a decree of adoption to Sauls’s *302mother and stepfather, Vanessa V. Atchison and James H. Atchison, Jr. We affirm for the reasons that follow.

On appeal from an order terminating parental rights based on an adoption petition, we construe the evidence favorably to the trial court’s ruling and determine whether any rational trier of fact could have found by clear and convincing evidence that the biological parent’s…